Funding IP Allocations

On Sunday, May 04, 1997 10:16 PM, Jon Lewis[SMTP:jlewis at inorganic5.fdt.net] wrote:
@ On Sun, 4 May 1997, Jim Fleming wrote:
@ 
@ > When you receive that information, I think that
@ > you will see that there are plans underway to
@ > make use of the Internet Intellectual Infrastructure
@ > Fund [1] which now has plenty of money.
@ > 
@ > [1] @@@@ http://rs.internic.net/announcements/iif-update.html
@ > 
@ > ...through March 31, 1997, $20,560,000.00 has been deposited into the account.
@ 
@ Cute...is there some reason a small chunk of this money can't be used to
@ get ARIN started up and financially stable so registration fees can start
@ out at a reasonable level rather than start high and eventually
@ (supposedly) get lower?  Starting a new business guaranteed to at least
@ break even in year 1 is a nice idea...I'd certainly like to do it...but
@ it's usually unreasonable.  There's money here that can be used to
@ subsidize ARIN until registration fees keep ARIN in the black.
@ 
@ This page states:
@ During the period September 14, 1995 through December 31, 1996, there have
@ been no disbursements from the account.
@ 
@ What happened since December?  Did some of the money already go somewhere?
@ Where?
@ 
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According to one of the letters from the
National Science Foundation, they view
ARIN as a separate venture. It is my
understanding that NSI is funding and
staffing ARIN.

The NSF is evidently planning on setting
up an organization with the fund to help
provide continuity of the Cooperative
Agreement that creates the non-company
called the InterNIC.

The InterNIC is of course:

NSF - management managing three companies:
	IS - NSI (replaced GA)
	DS - AT&T
	RS - NSI

If NSI wants out, the NSF can fund a replacement
with the money that was set aside. Unfortunately,
all of the money was not collected by NSI so the
fund is not as endowed as it should be. Despite
that, the fund certainly has enough money to help
pay for some infrastructure that the "IS company"
was supposed to help create. No new infrastructure
has ever been created. The NSF did not demand
that the terms of the Cooperative Agreement be
followed. The NSF has mismanaged the InterNIC.

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
http://www.Unir.Corp

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