[governance] IGF Cancelled

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Given marilla's email, this appears to be a nonstarter, and so, moot.

And it sounds very strange if some people were to continuously disparage a community or organization on the one hand, and demand sponsorship money from them on the other, on the grounds that the amount involved is hardly a rounding error in their revenue (or even their ebitda), just saying.

--srs (iPad)

On 27-Jul-2013, at 23:44, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> 
>> All of them opposed UN funding for the IGF
> 
> Is there anyone who in view of the current debacle is still opposed to
> UN funding for the IGF?
> 
>> but can they explain why they opposed 'committed' funding from ICANN 
>> collected Internet taxes, say of 2 million every year... Isn't that
>> the right model of funding the IGF , keeping if safe from staist as
>> well corporate controls....
> 
> I am not sure that ICANN's collection of domain name taxes is the right
> funding model for anything (it presupposes that domain names are sold
> for a price which makes them quite unaffordable to a very significant
> number of poor people) but as long as ICANN's funding model remains as
> it currently is, in view of ICANN's financials [1], funding at least a
> significant part of the cost of IGF meetings from ICANN's budget
> indeed makes a lot of sense.
> [1] http://www.icann.org/en/about/financials
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
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