[At-Large] Grant Funding to Support ALS Activities

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Danny, Evan, and all,

  Why should ICANN provide any funding for the ALS,
and why would any ALS want funding from ICANN unless for
the latter, they are unable or incapable to raise their
own funding themselves collectively?

  Seems to me that if any @large structure or organization
is to not be captured it must be independant of ICANN as
ICANN is a California public service non-profit corporation.
This does not mean that ICANN cannot or should not have it's
own individual membership, IMO it should.  It is to say that
unless any user or independant registrant doesn't want to
be in a conflict of interest to it's members, it must be
outside of ICANN with independant funding.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Apr 7, 2008 5:54 AM
>To: Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>, "Thompson, Darlene" <DThompson at GOV.NU.CA>
>Cc: At-Large Worldwide <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>, Danny Younger <dannyyounger at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [At-Large] Grant Funding to Support ALS Activities
>
>Interesting that the same language appears on the
>Euralo and Afralo websites in the "Why become an
>At-Large Structure" section.
>
>
>--- Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:
>
>> Thompson, Darlene wrote:
>> > Wow!
>> >
>> > This is sure news to me.
>> Me too, especially considering that ALSs must sign
>> an agreement which
>> states that they cannot be dependent on ICANN for
>> any internal funding.
>> My understanding of the process is the same as
>> Darlene's.
>> 
>> We're having an ... interesting ... enough time
>> getting funding for
>> activities _within_ ICANN!
>> 
>> - Evan
>> 
>> 
>
>
>
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