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Re: [registrars] Questions re: Budget Committee
- To: "Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [registrars] Questions re: Budget Committee
- From: Rick Wesson <wessorh@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:34:15 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: registrars@xxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <3FDF53A5.1020701@tucows.com>
- References: <3FDF53A5.1020701@tucows.com>
- Sender: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi bob,
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> Every year we elect budget reps and every year we see our budget
> contributions increase.
>
> I'd like to hear from the respective candidates what they intend to do
> to make sure that 2004 is different from years past. I'm especially
> interested in hearing from those of you that have served in this
> capacity before.
this was my major gripe last year. The big thing is that we were NOT
allowed to participate in the budgets development. We were only allowed to
approve a budget that was not even well enough documented that it could be
discussed line for line.
Often a budget is a negoaition process and involves implementing a mission
statement. Last budget was developed by stuart who did a great job of
divide and concor. the various funding constituencies (ASOs) were never
allowed to have a joint budget conference. We only met in one brief session
with the board to accept the budget. It was at this quiet little moment
when I couldn't take the complacency of the group and spoke my mind. and I
felt a lot better for it.
Some of the issues I enumerated were as follows:
o the budget must be developed from operating requirements not just an
increase from last year.
o squeezing registrars by increasing regularity pressure and increasing
fees will eliminate the smaller registrars, thus decreasing
competitiveness and diversity.
o price is in-elastic in the domain market, margins erode to zero.
o travel is not accounted for
o the level of detail does not support the amounts requested all
requests for supporting documentation were denied.
o not allowed to participate in budget development process.
o method used to calculate a registrars contributation is designed only
to obfuscate the charge as a TAX
Well thats just what I can remember, I sure would enjoy the chance to
pound some of those nails again.
thanks,
-rick
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