[arin-discuss] ARIN as a public interest business

[Martin Hannigan]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Sweeting, John
<john.sweeting at twcable.com> wrote:
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> On 2/23/12 12:59 PM, "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:49 PM, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
>>> On Feb 23, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
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>>>> Slide 7 of the financial report presented by the treasurer in the
>>>> Member Meeting in Philadelphia this past October shows an approved
>>>> budget of $10,374,849.00. Did I read that wrong? Did funding for 2012
>>>> really rise by $6M?
>>>
>>> That slide presents the performance of budgeted expense versus actual
>>> expense for the period of January through August 2011 (i.e. YTD means
>>> "Year to Date").  The budget is available on the web site here:
>>> https://www.arin.net/about_us/corp_docs/budget.html
>>>
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>>The slide that I pointed to demonstrates YTD, actual budget, and variance.
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>>https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_XXVIII/PDF/friday/a
>>ndersen_treasurer.pdf
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> It is Actual YTD, Budget YTD, and variance YTD.

The slides don't actually say that, but it makes sense. That simply
leaves the question as to how much did ARIN's budget actually increase
over 2011 and:


>>With regards to answering your question and suggesting what the proper
>>amount of reserve is for an organization like ARIN, what organizations
>>can I use to compare ARIN to?


Best,

-M<