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- Category: (replace this text with one of the following categories: Administration/Budget, Board, ccTLD, gTLD, IP, ICANN Structure, International Agreement, Root Zone)Topic: (replace this text with a keywords from title)
- Topic: President's Task Force on Funding Committee
- Board meeting date: 26 July 1999
- Resolution number: 99.61, 99.62, 99.63
- URL for Board minutes/resolution: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/minutes-26july99.htm
- Status: (replace this text with: Completed, Ongoing, Suspended)
Summary
(replace this text with the a one-sentence summary of the resolution) Board authorizes Interim President and Chief Executive Officer to suspend collection of the $1 variable component of the registrar accreditation fee.
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Interim President and Chief Executive Officer Roberts briefed the Board on the Corporation's efforts to obtain a permanent and stable funding source. It was noted that in its July 8, 1999, letter to Interim Chairman Dyson the U.S. Department of Commerce suggested that the Corporation suspend collection of the $1 variable component of the registrar accreditation fee until Directors selected by Supporting Organizations are seated so that a Board including those Directors can consider and approve an appropriate long-term funding mechanism. While agreeing that the $1 per-registration component of the registrar accreditation fee is a rational and appropriate approach to long-term funding that was the result of full notice and comment, is consistent with the White Paper, and is fully authorized by the Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Commerce and the Corporation, the July 8 letter noted that the $1 component had become controversial. After the July 16, 1999 Board meeting, Ms. Dyson wrote the Department of Commerce on July 19, 1999, indicating that the Board had decided to defer the collection of the $1 registrar fee and to appoint a task force made up of name and address registry administrators and gTLD name registrars, the entities that will bear primary responsibility for ICANN's cost-recovery needs, to make recommendations for a permanent funding structure.
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WHEREAS, that Board would benefit from additional views from name and address registry administrators and registrars, which will provide a principal source of ICANN's funding on an ongoing basis;unmigrated-wiki-markup
RESOLVED \ [resolution 99.61\], the Interim President and Chief Executive Officer is authorized to suspend collection of the $1 variable component of the registrar accreditation fee until further action by the Board;unmigrated-wiki-markup
FURTHER RESOLVED \ [resolution 99.62\], the Interim President and Chief Executive Officer is directed to convene a President's Task Force on Funding, chaired by him and also consisting of representatives chosen by him from IP address registries, domain-name registrars, and administrators of gTLD and ccTLD registries, and charged with formulating recommendations on cost-recovery mechanisms that fairly apportion ICANN's funding needs, as reflected in the budget that has been adopted, among the Internet name and address registry administrators and registrars and possibly other parties;unmigrated-wiki-markup
FURTHER RESOLVED \ [resolution 99.63\], based on the input of the President's Task Force on Funding and such consultation with staff and legal counsel as he deems appropriate, the Interim President and Chief Executive Officer is directed to have posted a preliminary report on funding alternatives on the ICANN web site in advance of the Board meeting scheduled for August 25 and 26, 1999, in Santiago, Chile, with further consideration of this matter to be as directed by Board resolution at that meeting or otherwise.
Implementation Actions
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- Responsible entity: (replace this text with the responsible entity: ICANN department, ICANN Community Structure, Board, U.S. Department of Commerce)
- Due date: (replace this text with Due Date)
- Completion date: (replace this text with Date action was implemented)
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- Responsible entity: (replace this text with the responsible entity: ICANN department, ICANN Community Structure, Board, U.S. Department of Commerce)
- Due date: (replace this text with Due Date)
- Completion date: (replace this text with Date action was implemented)
Other Related Resolutions
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Additional Information
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- Convene a Presdient's Task Force on Funding.
- Responsible entity: Interim President and Chief Executive Officer
- Due date: None provided
- Completion date: August 1999
- Post a preliminary report on funding alternatives on the ICANN web site.
- Responsible entity: Interim President and Chief Executive Officer
- Due date: 24 August 1999
- Completion date: 23 August 1999
Other Related Resolutions
- TBD
Additional Information
- Task Force on Funding Draft Final Report pursuant to the 26 July 1999 Resolution, available at: http://www.icann.org/en/committees/tff/final-report-draft-30oct99.htm
- Task Force on Funding information, available at http://icann.org/en/committees/tff/tff.htm
- Meeting minutes from first Task Force on Funding meeting, available at http://www.icann.org/en/committees/tff/tff-23aug99.htm
- The resolution does not address funding for the items identified therein.
Explanatory text does not modify or override Resolutions. See Board Resolutions Page for more information.
