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"Roeland M.J. Meyer" wrote: > > I might suggest that it will end when our infrastructure gets out of the > red. It may surprise many to know that the major infrastructure has been in > the red from day-one. Volunteer services are on the debit-side of the > ledger. Without some offsetting credits, the entire system is off-balance > and potentially unstable. > > Why does it not bother anyone that most of our top-level infrastructure is > 1) Paid for, or subsidized, by USG/NSF funding Where? > 2) root-servers.net is strictly voluntary (and unpaid) We will know that is a problem when we run out of volunteers. Until then, it must be a "good thing". > 3) IANA has no detectable revenue stream Hmmm, I seem to remember that the ISoc/IAB/IETF is funding its share. > 4) The BIND-master (Vixie) has to go begging for funding (ISC) This is a crying shame. But, I thought it was working out. Am I uninformed? > 5) IETF is strictly voluntary. Goodness gracious, a founding principle! You would prefer what, instead? > 6) Generally insufficient financial support for the whole mess. > > Why is that? In spite of all this, the system keep running. When they > finally figure out that they actually have to take care of "brick and > mortar" (you know, roof overhead and bread on the table) issues a bunch of > whiners show up to complain. > [email protected] Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32 |