[At-Large] Grant Funding to Support ALS Activities

[Evan Leibovitch]

Danny Younger wrote:
> 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?
One cynical conclusion would be that ICANN, not content with the pace at
which ALSs have been added, feels the need to bribe potential entrants.
Even worse is the suggestion that the bribe would be
allowed/acknowledged in some regions but not others.

I prefer, for now, to accept explanations based on either ignorance or
well-intentioned misunderstanding.

That At-Large -- both ICANN and the RALOs -- have been slow at the task
of outreach and recruitment is IMO beyond question. Having said that I
believe that we are, for now, very far from requiring such desparation
measures.

> 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.
I don't think that anyone I know within At-Large would disagree with this.

- Evan