[At-Large] Grant Funding to Support ALS Activities

[Danny Younger]

Hi Jacqueline,

All that I have seen thus far is from the Apralo
monthly meeting summaries wherein grant support for
the IGF Hyderabad session and grant support for the
APNG Camp is being or has been requested.

I am at loss to understand what ICANN's justification
would be for funding these endeavors.  Is ICANN now in
the charitable grant giving business?  

Hmmmm.... perhaps all of North American ALSs should
attend the upcoming NANOG conference in Brooklyn, or
the next IETF session on ICANN's dime, or perhaps
ICANN should pay to have every single LAC ALS attend a
General Assembly to discuss IGF, ICT4D and GAID.   

Giving out monies without a clear-cut disbursement
policy (that demonstrates a benefit to the entirety of
the ICANN Community on DNS-specific matters) strikes
me as a horribly bad idea.  

regards,
Danny

--- "Jacqueline A. Morris" <jam at jacquelinemorris.com>
wrote:

> That's the position - no funding from ICANN for ALS
> activities. Haven't 
> seen a change in the bylaws indicating that ICANN
> will fund ALSes... and 
> I would strongly disagree with it were it suggested.



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