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Re: IETF Endowment update

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Tue, 12 July 2016 17:16 UTC

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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:16:27 -0400
From: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
Subject: Re: IETF Endowment update
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, John C Klensin wrote:

> I signed up for, and contributed to, the Open Internet Endowment
> based on commitments that its mission would be very broad, not
> be turned into an IETF support fund.  I don't believe donors
> were even superficially consulted about the change.  What would
> happen if I (and maybe others who feel the same way) were to ask
> for refunds on the basis that we never agreed to repurposing of
> the funds?

I am in the same position. I feel a bit weird about it. I would not
have donated if it was just for IETF - I'm already mostly self-funded
on that. So I was a bit disappointed when this initiative turned out to
be an IETF fund.

Paul

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