On Jan 12, 2013, at 8:17 PM, "John Levine" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The political fallout from the US being seen as a big rich bully taking its
> wallet
> and going home is likely not worth the trivial amount of money involved.
Trivial to whom? Is $11M/year trivial relative to the $181M/year ITU budget?
Relative to the $2M/year IETF budget? Relative to the $600K/year budget of
NANOG? The petition does not suggest "taking its wallet and going home," it
suggests reallocating money from an organization that's fighting against the
Internet, to organizations that are fighting for the Internet, and doing so
much more efficiently. This is as much about funding NANOG and the IETF as it
is about removing 7.7% of the ITU's budget. You really think the ITU can make
better use of that money than NANOG and the IETF?
-Bill
