Because the ICANN bylaws we quoted in the paper say that we need to:
"The application shall include, but not be limited to, a
description of the following in form and substance acceptable to
the Board (and a commitment to implement the matters described in
the application): ... (vi) methods for funding the Supporting
Organization and providing funding for the Corporation (consistent
with Article XI, Section 4 of these Bylaws)."
> SOs should be concerned
> with self-funding their own activities while ICANN should be concerned with
> funding its activities.
The above quoted clause indicates that ICANN is concerned about
funding its activities, and it sees some of those funds coming from
entities that are represented in the SOs. Put more concretely, the
avenue for the registries (address and dns) to have policy input
into ICANN is through the SOs. So it seems quite reasonable that
ICANN would want some statement about how that funding is to be provided.
> It seems to me that ICANN will enter into
> contractual relationships with registries (name and number) and will
> establish funding through those relationships.
Of course. But you would think that ICANN would want some agreed to
policy about that funding, before entering into those contracts,
wouldn't you?
> Because SOs will be making recommendations to ICANN, it seems like there
> would be a possible conflict of interest if the SOs were also funding ICANN.
We didn't say that the SOs would be funding ICANN. Starting from
the second sentence in the paper:
"Each organization has been tasked with defining how funds should
be collected to pay for ICANN operations. It is not yet known
whether ICANN or the SOs will be the agent for the collection of
these. In any event, it appears that the majority of funds will be
collected using models defined by the SOs and approved by the
Board."
Perhaps when you have a chance to read the paper we could discuss it?
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