[ALAC] Draft statement on travel funding for approval at ALAC meeting - 24Mar09

[Alan Greenberg]

To be clear, the two "official" ones, that is, 
the ones that are specified in the ICANN Bylaws, 
are for the GNSO and the ccNSO. At the moment, I 
don't require separate funding, as I am already 
covered, and RUdi told us tha ttravel funding was 
not an issue when he put his name up for the 
ccNSO position. So in theory we could have two 
unused funding slots. Of course, we may discuss 
the appropriateness of funding Rudi *if* we 
actually get these requested funds. When we 
opened our Liaison slots last time, we said that 
we preferred committee members for two reasons: 
a) there would likely be better communications; 
and b) no additional travel funds would be 
required. I think that in many casees, the first 
reason will be the most important one.

I am not sure what our chances are of making the 
other Liaisons more "official". The IDN one has 
indeed been VERY official, and for some years it also had travel funding.

So bottom line, what we are asking for does give 
us some reasonable flexibility, and I would be 
reluctant to ask for too much more given that the 
chances are good that we might not even be able to use it.

Alan


At 23/03/2009 11:44 AM, Sébastien Bachollet wrote:
>Hello,
>My only concern is with the liaisons.
>ALAC have 2 official ones' but also some "no-official ones'"
>We need to work on "officialising" like ccNSO, IDN, NCSG/NCUC... and
>hopefully one day GAC...
>All the best
>
>Sébastien Bachollet
>Président d'honneur - Isoc France
>sebastien.bachollet at isoc.fr
>www.egeni.org
>www.isoc.fr
>
>
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces at atlarge-
> > lists.icann.org] De la part de Alan Greenberg
> > Envoyé : vendredi 20 mars 2009 06:12
> > À : ALAC Working List
> > Objet : [ALAC] Draft statement on travel funding for approval at ALAC
> > meeting - 24Mar09
> > Importance : Haute
> >
> > As discussed in Mexico City, ICANN is in the process of developing its
> > 2009-2010 Travel Procedure and Budget, and it was felt important for
> > the ALAC to quickly identify its needs and formally submit them to
> > ICANN.
> >
> > The draft document is attached in both PDF and WORD format.
> >
> > Please take whatever actions are necessary to be able to vote on this
> > important measure at next week's meeting. You may forward certainly it
> > to your RALO lists if appropriate.
> >
> > Although I am sure they are not very good, I have provided machine
> > translations for:
> > French - http://alangreenberg.org/ICANN/Travel-F.htm  and
> > Spanish: http://alangreenberg.org/ICANN/Travel-S.htm.
> >
> > Regards, Alan