Root Name Server Confederations

Thu May 22 17:39:03 UTC 1997

I would ignore the inuendo Paul....

Whether or not you run a non-profit or not does not matter.

It is quite obvious the prevailing attitude towards groups like yours is 
that you should walk 20 miles to work, wear old clothes, feed your kids 
from the food bank and burn old newspapers to keep warm.

Sure,

On Thu, 22 May 1997, 
Paul A Vixie wrote:

> I've been rimshot.  I'm choosing not to ignore it.  You should, though. Hit D!
> 
> > If you are looking for fame and fortune, I do not
> > think that eDNS will deliver that. eDNS is largely
> > a volunteer effort and I bet that any eDNS person
> > would trade places with...
> 
> Interesting choice of words there.
> 
> >                        ...some of the people that
> > you might think are not in this for the "profits"
> > even though they run "non-profit companies".
> 
> That sounds like me.
> 
> > Ask those people to review their annual earnings
> > with you sometime. I bet you do not get very far.
> 
> Nothing I'm involved in is publically traded, but you
> are still entitled to look upon the nonprofit financial
> statements.  What they'll show is that the Internet
> Software Consortium spends 100% of its donations on
> engineering, with a 0% overhead rate.  What this year's
> finances will show is that Vixie Enterprises subsidizes
> Bob Halley's entire salary for BIND work since we have
> not received sufficient donations to pay for it other-
> wise.  (INN and DHCP will shortly be in the same boat.)
> 
> So, sure, it's nice that Vixie Enterprises, my profitable
> company, can afford to pay engineers to work on things
> that don't bring in any money.  But I'm keenly aware that
> Rick Adams' "UUNET Communications Services" (the old UUNET
> nonprofit) put $700K into ISC originally and that I have
> a lot of catching up to do from the years when ISC paid
> my mortgage while I worked on BIND.
> 
> The thing that's bizarre is the AlterNIC/eDNS/intersteller
> community's continued inability to recognize that those
> of us who are involved in both for-profit and non-profit
> businesses have perfectly legitimate reasons for doing so.
> 
> By the way doesn't it seem odd to write in 50 columns?
> 