One can dive down and find all sorts of reasons for wanting/needing the budget (for instance, those who oppose Contract Co want to know by what percentage the overall budget might grow with additional structures). But regardless of the specific rationale, it is reasonable to assign some numbers to this if only to put the overall operation in perspective.

ICANN presents its budgets base on objective. This makes complete sense if you want to identify what a certain objective is costing, and one would not, for instance want to say that IT has had it's budget double when all of the growth is related to once strategic objective that was adopted.

But our need is a different one, and if the financial system cannot deliver what we want automatically, it should be completely reasonable to expect someone to do the calculation by hand. We should not have to be debating this ad infinitum.

Alan

At 03/02/2015 03:35 PM, Avri Doria wrote:

Hi,

I think these questions ought to asked because ICANN, funded mostly by Names, pays for all of IANA's services.

I think we need to know how much this costs and what the various portions cost as we are making assumptions about future possible plans. It is part of the stability question we need to answer. Something I know quite well is that lack of budget results in lack of stability.

The ICG has declared the three operational entities separate, and each of the three is declaring that they could leave ICANN if displeased - a position I agree with. But this is a service that cost quite a bit I expect and such independence would come at a cost. I think we need know the costs in order to figure out this puzzle. We cannot asume that thing could change without know what the costs would be.

For the Names side, we know that the cost = total cost for IANA - costs(Numbers + Protocols). But what is that in numbers?

avri

On 03-Feb-15 02:34, Gomes, Chuck wrote:

· Why are we asking questions about numbers and protocols? If there is a good reason for that, I suggest that the questions regarding numbers and protocols be separate from the questions for names.

· Regarding “Are your concerned about the actual costs for operating the IANA functions, for protocols and numbers, given these are currently funded by ICANN.” – Are don’t think it is accurate to say that they are currently funded by ICANN; ICANN may fund some costs but a large part of the RIR and IETF functions are not funded by ICANN.

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