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On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 12:59:27PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: > >5. One is financed by the government out of your taxes and is merely an > >accounting formality much like a customer ID number. The other is funded > >by a corporation that has no government funding and must support itself > >not unlike most businesses and the number is a critical infrastructure > >identifier something like an NPA-NXX. > > Technically, the USF is an industry-funded fund (sic? redundant). The SLC > is an independent not-for-profit entity (gosh sounds like ARIN). The > Universal Service Administrative Company, a subsidary of NECA collects > the USF fees and distributes them to the various funds. The money does > not come from the US Treasury, nor even 'taxpayers.' The USF money comes > from subscribers of interstate telecommunications services, much like the > money for ARIN comes from the subscribers of IP addresses and AS numbers. > > I couldn't find a budget on the ARIN website; but I wouldn't be pointing > to the SLC as an example of a well-run organization. Even ARIN at its > worst doesn't match the SLC for insanity. (Yes, Kim that was a compliment). > Maybe if the president of ARIN was paid $300,000/year like the president > of the SLC, things would be different. > -- > Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO > Affiliation given for identification not representation What is ARIN's Presidential salary? We don't know, because to date ARIN has refused to release that information (the salaries of the organization's officers). -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost
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