<font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Hello Avri Doria</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Thanks for your comment on this. </font></font></font></div><div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">1. I compared the Executive Compensation at ICANN to that of Commercial Corporations to point out - in general - that some of ICANN's executives would get higher compensation than what ICANN offers to them, so these executives are not exactly taking advantage of ICANN. </font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">2. When we have a lower compensation structure for non-profits it might save a few thousand dollars for that non-profit corporation, but this practice amounts to the non-profit taking advantage of those who opt to work for non-profits.</font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">3. Lower compensations structures tend to cause at least a little bit of compromise in the corporation's ability to hire people with the right background and skills. A corporation such as ICANN is several times as important as the largest of commercial corporations, so the people hired to run ICANN should be of a caliber higher than that of the people hired by very large commercial corporations.</font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">4. There are good natured people with the required qualification who would opt to work at low compensation levels, but it is not always necessary for all non-profit corporations to take advantage of the goodness of such people. </font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div>While this is my rationale in general, I do NOT blindly endorse the compensation package offered to every employee of ICANN. </div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">In the case of the CEO's compensation for the year, I wouldn't worry about a $ 250,000 difference. It isn't much. Definitely not a significant sum of money for a corporation as large as ICANN at its current level of revenue flow. And not a significant difference to merit an embarrassing discussion in a public list or in an open forum. The committee of people who have agreed upon the compensation and benefits must have taken this decision after due deliberations in camera. Perhaps we should leave it at that.</font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">( CEO's compensation at ICANN was close to $700,000 last year, if I am right. In that case $750,000 wouldn't be anything more than an inflation adjustment for the year)</font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Our energies could instead be directed towards finding ways of enhancing ICANN's revenues in areas where it is due, where it does not become a burden for the user. That would be several times more rewarding than saving a few thousand dollars on Executive Compensation.</font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><br clear="all"></font></font></font>Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br><a href="http://www.isocmadras.com">http://www.isocmadras.com</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Avri Doria <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avri@psg.com">avri@psg.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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You compare ICANN to profit making corporations. I do not think that is appropriate.<br>
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ICANN should be compared to an NGO as a non profit for the good of the public corporation. By and large, it is not considered proper to pay CEOs more then $500,000 in this environment - and when it happens, it is controversial. Even American Red Cross only pays around 500,000 per year. And we cannot say the work of ICANN is more complex or more important than that.<br>
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Of course JP Morgan's Partners HealthCare Systems in Boston takes home $2.7 million, so if ICANN is more like the healthcare industry then like a stewardship NGO, there is a ways to grow yet.<br>
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On 13 Feb 2010, at 14:56, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:<br>
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> Hello Michael Gurstein<br>
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> I feel that $ 750, 000 + is perfectly alright. Given his background and exposure, any business corporation should have been willing to 'poach' Rod Beckstorm from wherever he was for well over a million dollars a year. So, he is not overpaid by ICANN.<br>
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> This was one of the topics that I wrote about in Circle ID a year ago, <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090106_icann_pay_more_increase_spending/ome" target="_blank">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090106_icann_pay_more_increase_spending/ome</a> thing that I wrote last year in Circle ID , if it is of any interest.<br>
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> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br>
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> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:12 PM, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> From: Karl Auerbach <<a href="mailto:karl@cavebear.com">karl@cavebear.com</a>><br>
> Date: February 12, 2010 12:14:42 AM EST<br>
> To: David Farber <<a href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a>><br>
> Subject: ICANN President: $750,000+$195,000 bonus vs President of US:<br>
> $400,000<br>
> Reply-To: <a href="mailto:karl@cavebear.com">karl@cavebear.com</a><br>
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> ICANN has published, as it must as a tax exempt charitable corporation, the<br>
> salary it gifts unto its President: <a href="http://bit.ly/ametyG" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ametyG</a><br>
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> ICANN's president gets $750,000 plus a $195,000 spiff - $945,000, plus<br>
> expenses.<br>
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> The amount is more than double the compensation of the President of the<br>
> United Status: $400,000 plus $50,000 for expenses.<br>
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> The amount is about four times the compensation of the Secretary General of<br>
> the United Nations.<br>
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> Is there perhaps some truth to the rumor that ICANN is soon going to be<br>
> buying a pair of Airbus 380's to call "Domain Name One" as they transport<br>
> its President?<br>
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> --karl--<br>
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