[governance] ITU vs. ICANN

[Paul Wilson]

--On 9 October 2010 12:03:23 PM +0200 William Drake 
<william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:

> Hi
>
[...]

> it'd be
> sensible for IGC members to follow events in the ITU more, inter alia
> since this rather than the IGF is where the real intergovernmental stuff
> is happening.  It's a pity there are no CS organizations prepared to test
> the secretariat's frequent declarations of openness to CS participation
> and actually apply to be sector members in ITU-T or ITU-D; the only
> related entity participating is ISOC, which has made many good
> interventions against heavy intergovernmentalism but has not sought to be
> a vehicle for wider member/community/CS engagement etc.


Bill,

In addition to ISOC, some of the RIRs have paid Sector membership fees to 
the ITU, in D and/or T sectors, as a means to access documents and ITU 
events.

You should be aware of the fees involved:

  http://www.itu.int/members/sectmem/fees.html

Which correspond to minimum annual fees of 32,800 Swiss Francs in T or R 
Sectors, and 8,200 in the D sector (or 4,100 in developing countries).

There are additional fees payable for participation in (described as 
"defraying the expenses of") the Plenipot.  This amounts to something over 
5,000 Francs per sector member organisation.

And as you know you can replace a Franc with a USD these days as a rough 
conversion.

Paul Wilson
APNIC.





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