Ignoring that revenues are generally increasing and will so perhaps greatly with new gTLDs, budgets are always supposed to be set based on projected revenue. If ICANN had to constrain its budget some, that would be exactly what some folks say it needs anyway. Alan At 04/04/2012 10:17 AM, Garth Bruen at Knujon.com wrote:
Ok, that's a fair amount.
However, in this hypothetical the reserve would be chipped away at year after year. How long would that be appropriate?
I'm not debating, I'm really just trying to play it all out.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 11:29 PM To: "Garth Bruen at Knujon.com" <gbruen@knujon.com> Cc: "LACRALO discussion list" <lac-discuss-en@atlarge-lists.icann.org>; "NA Discuss" <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] "Chicken and Egg" Problem
John, do you know offhand how much is in the reserve?
They publish the numbers:
https://charts.icann.org/public/index-finance-reserveB.html
Looks to me like it currently contains about $50 million. In answer to another comment, it really is a reserve, not a dedicated fund or anything else.
R's, John
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