Question about Tax Liabilities and the IETF's document portfolio and its worth...

Jorge -
If a document has a value computed at the cost of producing
the document and
not per the document's content's valuation as IP, i.e. by
multiplying the
salary of the Author by the number of hours put into the
work) , then we can
pretty accurately value the IETF's Portfolio date.

Lets assume that the IETF has some  4,000 plus RFC's and
multiple revisions
of many and their value to deal with. The same would be true
with the I-D's.
So... lets do the math - say each document takes 30 hrs to
produce and that
the person doing the work makes $40/Hr ($80,000 yr). Then
the cost of that
document (without any of the additional overhead) is at
least $1200.

So now lets look at the RFC's and ID's posted. Lets call
it just for fun
10,000 total documents published (which we know is actually
a fraction of
what was published), so 10,000 x 1,200 = a minimum of $12M
in IP
Submissions.  But that assumes ***only*** 30/hrs per
document, and many of
the documents submitted have hundreds if not thousands of
individual hours
in them. So if 30 hours is $1,200/doc, then likewise at this
level, 1000
hours is $40,000 per document.

This valuation model of course does not include any of the
other work that
the other participants add while vetting or otherwise, thus
increasing the
value of any derivatives developed as part of the IETF's
process which would
be the property of the original IP submitter. If you have
any doubts of
this, then lets look at whether people are writing-down
their employee's
participation or not...

So Jorge, has the IETF ever declared any of this? The IRS
says "not to
date", so what is going on?  Who pays the taxes on
what IP turned over to
the IETF? the IETF is not a Tax Exempt Entity as far as I
can tell, so how
is this being dealt with?

Please answer this ASAP because I want to file for the
bounty on these
unpaid funds which may be closer to $30M than the $12M we
postulate they are
based on the formula cited above.

Todd Glassey


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