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Dear Roberto,<br>
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thank you for your comment regarding CROPP. Comments inline:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/09/2016 14:52, Roberto Gaetano
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Unfortunately I am in a
meeting in the US and will be unable to attend the call.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">One of the items on the
agenda is CROPP, and I would like to follow up on the
discussion at our last teleconference sharing my opinion
with you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I understand the
rationale behind Oksana’s proposal to use CROPP funding for
attendance to the next EURALO GA, but I have to disagree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I believe that, even if
we could bend the rules to use the CROPP funding for
bringing members to an ICANN meeting, it would be a waste of
the scarce resources dedicated to outreach. There are other
funding mechanisms for participation in ICANN meetings.</span></p>
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I have checked with the CROPP Review Team what the rule is regarding
using CROPP money to bring people to an ICANN meeting, bearing in
mind that the next ICANN meeting in Europe will be in Copenhagen
early next year. The answer is that it is indeed possible to use
CROPP to fund someone to come to an ICANN meeting, if a RALO uses it
for an ICANN regional meeting. So that would be the case if we were
to have our General Assembly in Copenhagen. In fact, this has
already been done by LACRALO last year, where it was an exception.
This year, it is possible as standard.<br>
However, I agree with you that this program is called CROPP for
"Outreach Pilot Programme", and sending someone to an ICANN meeting
does not sound like outreach at all. Plus a CROPP allocation would
not fund a participant for the whole length of the ICANN meeting.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Outreach is one of the
activities where we are lacking, for a number of reasons,
and we should be putting even more effort to widen EURALO’s
footprint and to get new members rather than use the money
for the benefit of those who are already members.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Last but not least, I
have already expressed my dismay on the fact that if we have
a funded travel people can spare a whole week for travelling
to an ICANN meeting, but they cannot make up the time (2 to
4 hours) for joining the General Assembly by teleconference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Roberto</span></p>
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Thanks for your comments.<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
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