[NA-Discuss] Financial Contribution & Assessment of Dues

[Danny Younger]

Evan,

What "actual policy" issues would you like to discuss?

regards,
Danny


--- Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:

> 
> How absolutely astounding that anyone who supposedly
> advocates for
> greater public accessibility wants to retroactively
> change the RALO
> model to "pay for play".
> 
> We operate on a shoestring. There's no way we could
> participate in San
> Juan without financial support. The value of CLUE
> personnel time spent
> so far on this ICANN advisory adventure -- with no
> evidence yet that
> we'll actually have any effect on the process -- is
> substantial.
> 
> A "membership fee" assumes that we are joining
> something from which we
> would be entitled to "member benefits". So far the
> only benefit has been
> the ability to have substantial amounts of our time
> disintegrated in the
> pursuit of pointless discussions that have nothing
> to so with actual
> policy. In any case, it has yet to be demonstrated
> that ICANN's
> financial model requires such contributions.
> 
> The RALO structure is that of an advisory body, not
> a membership
> organization, and we are here by invitation. The
> notion that we should
> have to pay for the privilege of offering our point
> of view is
> reprehensible.
> 
> Hey, I have no problem recommending that CLUE pay a
> membership fee IFF
> ICANN will pay for the time I spend having to read
> ridiculous,
> time-wasting emails generated from its process. The
> net-positive revenue
> stream to our organization would be considerable.
> 
> - Evan
> 
> 
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