Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Mon Jul 26 01:30:59 UTC 2010
On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:54 AM, David Conrad wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> My point was that as a cost center, IANA depends on funding from other sources. The RIRs are a major source of that funding.
>
> I guess it depends on your definition of "major". From section 5.1 of ICANN's draft FY11 budget (http://www.icann.org/en/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-v1-fy11-17may10-en.pdf if you care):
>
> Registry $32,647,000
> Registrar $29,159,000
> RIR $823,000
> ccTLD $1,600,000
> IDN ccTLD $780,000
> Meeting Sponsorships $500,000
> Total $65,509,000
>
> So the RIRs contribute 1.25% of ICANN's budget.
>
> Regards,
> -drc
Correct, now, what portion of ICANN's budget is related to the NRO sector?
My bet is that it's less than 1.25%.
I suppose you can make domain owners pay for address administration if you want to make address administration free,
but, that seems a bit backwards to me.
Owen
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