<div dir="auto">A really good use of an hour indeed! <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Alan, thanks for yet again exhibiting your superior skill; researching! You and Dev....always on my team.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Carlton </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 13, 2017 2:29 PM, "Alan Greenberg" <<a href="mailto:alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca">alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I doubt that the CCWG will create a specific carve-out for IGF funding at
this stage, And I would hope it will not prohibit such
applications.<br><br>
To what extent funding either the global or regional IGFs is within
ICANN's mission and scope is something that has already and I presume
will continue to be debated.<br><br>
For those who have an interest in the subject and have not already done
so, I found that listening to the Board session on the ICANN support and
funding of IGFs at the recent Board Workshop was really good use of an
hour -
<a href="https://participate.icann.org/p8yx7xiby7i/?OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=5bc0ea4e3ccd35164744c09ed4e716ecfaad25394a3bd46078d72451931fe3cf" target="_blank">
<b>https://participate.icann.org/<wbr>p8yx7xiby7i/</b></a>.<br><br>
Alan<br><br>
At 12/05/2017 06:59 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type="cite" class="m_-6878140310258632099cite">​Oh and before anyone replies
on procedure:<br><br>
I am fully aware that this stage of the WG is dealing with broad criteria
and not specific recipients.​<br><br>
But in the world of Internet Governance, the IGF is in a category of its
own and IMO it is reasonable to discuss its inclusion at a structural
level at this point.<br><br>
On 12 May 2017 at 18:55, Evan Leibovitch
<<a href="mailto:evan@telly.org" target="_blank">evan@telly.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<dd>I'm not sure that there's really a disagreement between Ken and
John.<br><br>
<dd>Informing the world of the function of the DNS -- and of ICANN's
crucial role in that piece of infrastructure -- is both within scope and
of high value. There are ways that this can be deployed in ways that
don't constitute vanity and self-aggrandizing.<br><br>
<dd>---<br><br>
<dd>Personally I'm a little surprised and disappointed by the fact nobody
in this list, especially my civil society colleagues, are advocating use
of auction proceeds to seed an ongoing endowment for the IGF. There are
many important parts of Internet governance, but ICANN is the only one of
them that attracts so much money and speculative/entrepreneurial
behavior. ICANN could almost overnight render itself one of the global
heroes of the Internet ecosystem if it provided ongoing support of other
related bits such that the IGF could maintain vitality and
independence.<br><br>
<dd>Furthermore, it is in ICANN's selfish best interest to promote
multi-stakeholderism throughout the universe of IG. If government
multilateral activity can successfully encroach on the ecosystem due to
weakness/failure of the IGF, then ICANN will surely be a target
next.<br><br>
<dd>Just a thought. If ALAC got behind this and the idea gained broad
support, ICANN will find a way to define such action to be within
scope.<br><br>
<dd>(Disclosure: I have never even attended an IGF, so I am hardly acting
in a self-serving manner in proposing this endowment. One doesn't have to
be in the IGF to see its value.)<br>
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<dd>- Evan<br><br>
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Evan Leibovitch<br>
Toronto, Canada<br>
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