[ga] How ICANN spends its funds

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

The items below were some of the line entries in last
year's budget:

$100,000 -- Establish comprehensive registry failover
plan  (OK, so where's the plan?)

$650,000 -- Establish infrastructure to support timely
implementation of consensus policy (Has the
infrastructure been established?  Are we better off
now than we were a few years ago?  This is a large
expenditure... what actually got done?)

$24,000 -- Continual improvement of contractual
compliance program (great budget for this item; it's
no wonder that registrars are so compliant)

$200,000 -- Establish registrar data escrow program
(well that never happened, did it?)

$40,000 -- Reform the Registrar Accreditation
Agreement (that didn't happen either)

$120,000 -- Review UDRP for effectiveness (that also
didn't happen)

$590,000 -- Dealing with potential business failure of
key Operational entities / develop an
emergency response plan (It must have been this plan
that was responsible for the smooth handling of the
Registerfly meltdown :)

$240,000 -- Economics and statistical expertise:
introduction of new gTLDs (so where are the economic
and statistical reports?)

$120,000 -- Implementation of new gTLD consensus
policy, e.g., developing capability to
consider applications (yes, just dot your i's and
cross your t's and ICANN still will reject your
application)

$30,000 -- Implementation of Whois policy development
(exactly what has been implemented?)

$75,000 -- Addressing issues of DNS market behavior
(this must mean the new workshops on how to become a
mass typosquatter)

$190,000 -- Improve and deepen participation in the
ICANN process - Government (GAC)  (just what we need,
more participation from those that are never up to
speed)

$690,000 -- Improve and deepen participation in the
ICANN process - End Users (ALAC) (and what exactly did
we get from this expenditure?  Are end users better
off or are we just subsidizing travel junkets and
perks?)

$410,000 -- Scholarships for participants in
developing countries (was a scholarship program
announced?  Perhaps I missed it...)

$125,000 -- Develop a process for capturing and
archiving information (this must be why Public Forum
comments keep disappearing)

$158,000 -- Develop mechanisms to report on ICANN
openness and transparency (funny)


 
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