Cost-recovery (was: Re: [bestbits] [governance] Ad hoc Best Bits strategy meeting tomorrow lunchtime)

[McTim]

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> On Nov 8, 2013, at 3:11 AM, John Curran wrote:
>
>> On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:13 AM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>>
>>> And somehow all this must be paid for.  UN is slashing budgets, the ITU has no cash, so some global tax likely to be suggested (again.)
>>
>> Presently the critical Internet resource registries are paid for by
>> those who directly make use of the registry services (in the case of
>> DNS, registries and registrars; in the case of IP addresses, the RIRs
>> collectively pay into ICANN; the IETF protocol parameters are seen as
>> a nominal cost which is absorbed by the system.)
>>
>
>
> well the RFC editor function is hardly nominal.  And someone from this new institutional arrangement will have to find that $1 million (or whatever it is now).

I think JC was referring to the Protocols and Parameters stuff that
IANA keeps track of for the IETF.  That is very low cost stuff.

The RFC editor function isn't paid for by ICANN AFAIK.  I had thought
it was paid for by ISOC.



-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"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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