On Oct 8, 2021, at 12:39 PM, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 2:39 PM Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:

I see this as a way to allow NANOG to help channel some of ICANN’s incredible excess of funding

towards more useful pursuits than those ICANN has endowed so far.

https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-and-first-sign-memorandum-of-understanding-on-dns-threats-mitigation-22-5-2020-en

https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-signs-memorandum-of-understanding-with-the-georgian-national-communications-commission-7-12-2020-en

https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/gsma-and-icann-sign-memorandum-of-understanding-at-gsma-mobile-world-congress-28-2-2018-en

https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-signs-memorandum-of-understanding-with-the-global-cyber-alliance-16-6-2020-en

I suspect that if you think that this will make it rain, you will be sadly disappointed...

I don’t expect it will do any good at all. I hope that it will be slightly less damaging than the things ICANN

usually spends money on.

I trust NANOG to be less destructive than ICANN and as near as I can tell, this partnership is mostly ICANN funding

and NANOG doing.

The Parties agree to use their own funds or financial resources to fulfill their respective responsibilities under this MoU. This MoU shall not cause any financial obligations on any one of the Parties hereto as a result of enforcing any of its rights or executing any of its obligations hereunder.

It's a nice letter from ICANN supporting the education program for the most part.