We touched on ICANN budget issues in Argentina, but this article from today's Australian IT makes some interesting points about ICANN's budget for 2005-2006 that shows a rather sharp upward trend: For reference purposes, here are ICANN's most recent budget numbers: ~$6 million (FY-'03); ~$8.3 million (FY-'04); ~$15.8 million (FY-'05 Budgeted) / ~$23 million (FY-'05 Actual) Quote from the Australian IT article: "Mr Twomey said that the organisation had made loose projections it would need to increase its revenue target of $US23 million for the end of June this year, to a figure 'in the low 30 millions' next year." http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12825576%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E... Perhaps we could place the 2005-2006 budget on our next agenda, and I wonder if we could receive a report from someone involved in the budgeting process on the estimates for the coming year. Bret