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One can dive down and find all sorts of reasons for wanting/needing the
budget (for instance, those who oppose Contract Co want to know by what
percentage the overall budget might grow with additional structures). But
regardless of the specific rationale, it is reasonable to assign some
numbers to this if only to put the overall operation in perspective.
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ICANN presents its budgets base on objective. This makes complete sense
if you want to identify what a certain objective is costing, and one
would not, for instance want to say that IT has had it's budget double
when all of the growth is related to once strategic objective that was
adopted.<br><br>
But our need is a different one, and if the financial system cannot
deliver what we want automatically, it should be completely reasonable to
expect someone to do the calculation by hand. We should not have to be
debating this ad infinitum.<br><br>
Alan<br><br>
At 03/02/2015 03:35 PM, Avri Doria wrote:<br>
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I think these questions ought to asked because ICANN, funded mostly
by Names, pays for all of IANA's services.<br><br>
I think we need to know how much this costs and what the various portions
cost as we are making assumptions about future possible plans. It
is part of the stability question we need to answer. Something I
know quite well is that lack of budget results in lack of
stability.<br><br>
The ICG has declared the three operational entities separate, and each of
the three is declaring that they could leave ICANN if displeased - a
position I agree with. But this is a service that cost quite a bit
I expect and such independence would come at a cost. I think we
need know the costs in order to figure out this puzzle. We cannot
asume that thing could change without know what the costs would
be.<br><br>
For the Names side, we know that the cost = total cost for IANA -
costs(Numbers + Protocols). But what is that in numbers?<br><br>
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avri<br><br>
On 03-Feb-15 02:34, Gomes, Chuck wrote:<br>
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· Why are we asking
questions about numbers and protocols? If there is a good reason
for that, I suggest that the questions regarding numbers and protocols be
separate from the questions for names.<br><br>
· Regarding “<b>Are your
concerned about the actual costs for operating the IANA functions, for
protocols and numbers, given these are currently funded by ICANN.</b>” –
Are don’t think it is accurate to say that they are currently funded by
ICANN; ICANN may fund some costs but a large part of the RIR and IETF
functions are not funded by ICANN.</blockquote><br>
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