[governance] Comments related to the WGIG report

[Milton Mueller]

>>> McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> 08/13/05 3:14 PM >>>
[arguing that the Forum does not need a Secretariat]

>The IETF springs to mind here.  It has only one employee (a recetn
>hire). It has functioned for many years on volunteer efforts.

I'm sorry, but this is a factual error. The Corporation for National
Research Initiatives has served as the IETF Secretariat for many years,
and has recieved grant money from the USG in part because of that
function. IETF had a budget of about $2 million per year during this
period.

Additionally, NSF and DARPA supported the RFC Editor function with
grant money during the most important years of the IETF's development
(1987-1997). At the present time, the Internet Society (ISOC) is
receiving over $3 million in contributions from PIR (the .org registry)
to support IETF activities. 

People who say the Forum doesn't need a secretariat are, I suspect,
people who don't really care whether we have a Forum or not. 

--MM

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