and going home is likely not worth the trivial amount of money involved.
Trivial to whom? Is $11M/year trivial relative to the $181M/year ITU budget? Relative to the $2M/year IETF budget? Relative to the $600K/year budget of NANOG?
Trivial to the US government, who's appropriating the money, of course. Not trivial to the ITU-R and ITU-D. You know what they are, right?
This is as much about funding NANOG and the IETF as it is about removing 7.7% of the ITU's budget.
If I were trying to think of a way to totally destroy the effectiveness of the IETF, loading it up with millions of dollars that come with political strings attached would be about the best one I could imagine. Congrats.
R's, John
