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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 18 September 2014 06:50 PM,
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<div>Time for some reality based thinking here.<br>
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ICANN has a lot of money, sure, however, they are
spending it on IG conferences (NetMundial, IGF, and
others that you folks are happy to participate in) at a
prodigious rate. <br>
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Every meeting they attend, they more than extract their pound of
flesh... Net Mundial being a good example. They even got civil
society leads appointed for civil society apart . <br>
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<div>MOST of the money they have on hand is budgeted fro
legal fees in case/when they get sued, so it is a
'war-chest" they can't touch.<br>
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Let them come out of the US, they would need a fraction of that kind
of expenditure. <br>
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They have spent so much so fast that they are actually
cutting the budget for 2015, as new gTLD revenues are
significantly lower than what was anticipated. <br>
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The latest in this saga is that the Gala, a staple of ICANN
meetings has been cut from the Agenda.<br>
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So not wallowing in cash, actually fairly strapped for it.
These auctions reveneues don't go into the regular budget
IIRC, but are put aside in the new gTLD kitty, in other words,
they aren't really free to spend it as and when they wish.<br>
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Interesting! Then whose wishes they are able to spend it for? BTW, I
really will like to know who gave the ICANN mandate to get into Net
Mundial and WEF kind of things, which is basically trying to forge a
new global IG order far beyond the domain name space? But ICANN is
hardly answerable to me. <br>
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So it's not all fancy lunches/dinners/biz class travel for ICANN
staff. In fact, on the way home from Durban I saw several ICANN
VPs in Economy.<br>
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The simple tasks that is the mandate of the ICANN to perform can be
done at maybe 5 percent of ICANN's budget or at least revenue. ICANN
is just highly puffed up for basically serving US's geopolitical
interests Were it not for that, it would have been 'disciplined' -
including its earning and expenditure - long long ago..<br>
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McTim<br>
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it
is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:03 AM,
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On Thursday 18 September 2014 06:10 PM, Norbert Klein
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Thanks, Louis.<br>
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How long will it still be possible to LOL?<br>
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As long as a certain section of IG civil society remains
so ingratiated with ICANN that they will never speak up
anything that can lead to any real structural change in
the ICANN, and make it really responsible to the global
public. The quid pro quo of course being that ICANN spends
a part of the money currying favour with this section of
the civil society.<br>
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I know this kind of thing is normally not said in the
polite society of global IG, but what the heck... The loot
cannot go on. And if those who are supposed to be the
watch dogs turn pets, it must be called out in the larger
public interest...<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
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And how transparent is it where these dollars go?<br>
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I remember there were some time not conclusive
discussions about staff perks (some working on TLD
system development), and some discussion about staff
salaries or "benefits" - ICANN is a non-profit.<br>
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So am I.<br>
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What I have done from 1994 to more recently to
connect the country to the Internet, to get the
Cambodian script into Unicode, to help to organize
the creation of localized Khmer Open Source software
(now the official software for the Ministry of
Education and everything under it in Teachers
Training Colleges, Provincial Offices of Education,
and schools that have computer), all that was also
non-profit.<br>
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But at the end, ICANN seems to have a lot of money.<br>
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Norbert Klein<br>
Cambodia<br>
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On 9/18/2014 7:17 PM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:<br>
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Results Available for 17 September 2014 Auction.<br>
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Four applicants for BUY participated in the
Auction. Amazon EU S.à r.l. prevailed in the
Auction with the winning price of *$4,588,888.<br>
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Six applicants for TECH participated in the
Auction. Dot Tech LLC prevailed in the Auction
with the winning price of *$6,760,000*.<br>
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Five applicants for VIP participated in the
Auction. Top Level Domain Holdings prevailed in
the Auction with the winning price of
*$3,000,888*.<br>
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Remember. ICANN is non-profit and no tax. LOL.<br>
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Louis<br>
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