[159523] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: De-funding the ITU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Sun Jan 13 11:28:00 2013
Date: 13 Jan 2013 11:27:45 -0500
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <1E4589F8-1BFF-4CDF-8799-F7D89380DA6B@pch.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> 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?
Trivial to the US government, who's appropriating the money, of course.
Not trivial to the ITU-R and ITU-D. You know what they are, right?
> This is as much about funding NANOG and the IETF as it is about removing
> 7.7% of the ITU's budget.
If I were trying to think of a way to totally destroy the effectiveness of
the IETF, loading it up with millions of dollars that come with political
strings attached would be about the best one I could imagine. Congrats.
R's,
John
