This is from the recent archives, but required reading for the budget discussions: Note From A Concerned Reader. I didn't write it, but I agree with it entirely. What concerns me most about the current budget discussion is how removed it is from the work that went on in 2002-03 to create ICANN 2.0. After months of discussion and vigorous debate, the ICANN community reached a point of general agreement about the sort of organization ICANN should become, how its mission should be defined and limited, and, yes, even the amount of and funding mechanism for its budget. Those discussions seem completely lost on "the Twomey administration." So read this...and remember where ICANN was just last year.