[159515] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: De-funding the ITU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Sun Jan 13 02:07:52 2013
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130113041722.50261.qmail@joyce.lan>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:07:38 -0800
To: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 12, 2013, at 8:17 PM, "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> The political fallout from the US being seen as a big rich bully =
taking its wallet
> and going home is likely not worth the trivial amount of money =
involved.
Trivial to whom? Is $11M/year trivial relative to the $181M/year ITU =
budget? Relative to the $2M/year IETF budget? Relative to the =
$600K/year budget of NANOG? The petition does not suggest "taking its =
wallet and going home," it suggests reallocating money from an =
organization that's fighting against the Internet, to organizations that =
are fighting for the Internet, and doing so much more efficiently. This =
is as much about funding NANOG and the IETF as it is about removing 7.7% =
of the ITU's budget. You really think the ITU can make better use of =
that money than NANOG and the IETF?
-Bill
