Funding IP Allocations
Jim Fleming
JimFleming at unety.net
Mon May 5 09:30:05 EDT 1997
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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Please note that things move very slowly at the National
Science Foundation (NSF). As noted below, it could take
18 months to prepare a budget.[1]
Despite the snail's pace they have in decision-making it
is important to let the people in charge know that the
Registry Industry continues to develop and the longer
the U.S. Government blocks the entry of the new registries
into the Root Name Servers they control, the longer this
industry will take to reach the U.S. taxpayers.
The recent packets sent out by the National Science
Foundation seem to indicate that the Internet Registry
Industry issues are now being handled by Joseph Bordogna,
the Deputy Director of the NSF.
In the one of the letters that Mr. Bordogna sent, he
indicates that the NSF is working with NSI to develop a
new non-profit company to continue the InterNIC and this
company will be funded with the Internet Intellectual
Infrastructure Fund which currently has over $20,000,000 [2]
from domain registration "taxes". This will apparently
allow NSI to go off and compete with other TLD registries.
It is interesting that NSF is considering funding a NEW
company, using the Internet taxes collected, so that
the previous company can be free to compete using the
market share it developed with the millions of dollars
that the NSF provided to it as seed capital.
At some point this budget cycle has to be broken. With
an 18 month preparation period it is clear that decisions
made today may not have an impact for a long time. As
a result of that, the NSF appears to resort to its own
tax and spend cycle that it controls. It is a shame that
the people and companies being taxed do not seem to
have much input to how those taxes are being spent.
Maybe if people let the people at the NSF know that this
process is not helping the Internet, is damaging businesses,
and is eventually going to require that NSF budgets be
cut by Congress, then these people will start to become
more responsive and responsible for their actions
Here are the people to contact:
National Science Foundation
Neal Lane - nlane at nsf.gov
<http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/forum/lane/quscipol.htm>
Joseph Bordogna - jbordogn at nsf.gov
<http://www.nsf.gov/home/od/start.htm>
Juris Hartmanis - jhartman at nsf.gov
<http://www.cise.nsf.gov/oad/jhartman.html>
George Strawn - gstrawn at nsf.gov
<http://www.cise.nsf.gov/ncri/Georgehome.html>
Don Mitchell - dmitchel at nsf.gov
<http://www.cise.nsf.gov/ncri/Donhome.html>
[1] @@@@@ http://www.cise.nsf.gov/general/budget/budget_caveat.html
"CISE budgets, along with budgets for the rest of NSF,
are the result of months of negotiation within NSF and
then between NSF and the President's Office of Management
and Budget (OMB). These negotiations (which are not public)
culminate in a set of numbers and accompanying verbiage
for Fiscal Year 1996 (as an example year), which is
submitted along with budgets for all of the Executive Branch,
generally in the January before the Fiscal Year (January 1995,
in the case of the Fiscal Year 1996 budget), from the President
to Congress. The submission to Congress is public, and is the
material which you find here on the CISE web pages.
<...>
So there is potentially up to 18 months between the writing
of CISE' budgetary plans, and the completion of the budgetary
process. When you read the CISE budgetary language on
the CISE Web pages, please keep that in mind."
@@@@ http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/bud/fy1998/cise.htm
LEVEL OF FUNDING BY SUBACTIVITY AND PROGRAM
(Dollars in Thousands)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHANGE
FY 1996 FY 1997 FY 1997 FY 1998 FY 98 Req/FY 97 CP
ACTUAL REQUEST CURRENT PLAN REQUEST AMOUNT PERCENT
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH AND INFRASTRUCTURE
NSFNET 42,233 44,140 42,740 47,740 5,000 11.7%
Networking & Communications
Research Project Support 12,803 12,950 12,950 14,520 1,570 12.1%
----------------------------------------------------------
Total 55,036 57,090 55,690 62,260 6,570 11.8%
----------------------------------------------------------
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
[2] @@@@ http://rs.internic.net/announcements/iif-update.html
...through February 28, 1997: $17,397,321.00 has been desposited into the account.
...through March 31, 1997, $20,560,000.00 has been deposited into the account
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
$20,560,000
-$17,397,321
-------------------
$3,162,679 = 30% of $10,542,263
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