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
