[At-Large] Grant Funding to Support ALS Activities

[Jacqueline A. Morris]

Well
There's outreach funding as well as the RALO annual meetings (agreed to 
in the RALO MoUs)
But this is not supposed to be a feeding trough. If you go to a meeting, 
it's supposed to further ICANN's aims, not just pay for you to go to a 
meeting that you can't afford or don't want to pay for.
Jacqueline

Danny Younger wrote:
> 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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