RE: [wg-review] Who pays for ICANN

["Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>]

Of course WIPO should contribute! As should ALL represented groups.

Also, there is a separate set of contributions- the larger one is to  ICANN,
and a smaller one is DNSO contributions. All constituencies in the DNSO are
asked to contribute to DNSO costs- as determined by the NC budget comittee-

However some of the constituencies don't pay anything, or they pay less than
their share, or they pay late- and there is no formal mechanism for
financing webcasts, servers, technicians, scribes, etc.

peter de Blanc



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From: owner-wg-review@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-review@dnso.org]On
Behalf Of Sotiropoulos
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 4:28 AM
To: Elisabeth Porteneuve; Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr;
wg-review@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [wg-review] Who pays for ICANN


1/8/01 9:21:43 AM, Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>
wrote:

>   The Task Force recommends that continuing revenue requirements
>   to support ICANN's transition budget for FY99-00 (July 1, 1999
>   to June 30, 2000) be allocated among the name and address
>   registries and registrars according to the formula set forth below.
>   In making this recommendation the Task Force accompanies it with
>   the caveat that although it believes these proportional shares
>   are fair and appropriate to the current circumstances of ICANN
>   and the registry/registrar communities, any such formula requires
>   scrutiny over time, and it assumes that this recommendation will
>   be reviewed in connection with development of the ICANN budget
>   for FY00-01, commencing in the spring of 2000. Further, the
>   Task Force notes that due to parallel processes operating with
>   respect to its own work, the negotiations among ICANN, NSI and the
>   USG over pending contract agreements, and the development of ICANN's
>   revised budget projection for the current fiscal year, the
>   percentages used herein are subject to rounding and interpolation
>   as applied to specific agreements to be executed following
>   Board action on the recommendations of the Task Force.
>
>   gTLD registrars and registry = 55%
>
>   - gTLD registrars = 50%
>
>   - gTLD registry = 5%
>
>   ccTLD registries = 35%
>
>   IP address registries = 10%


Thank You Elizabeth.

Just one question: Doesn't WIPO contribute here?  Seems to me they've had
their fair share of input to date... shouldn't they be shouldering some of
the
costs?  Aren't the Intellectual Property people a represented constituency
within the DNSO?

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
          Hermes Network, Inc.




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