[NA-Discuss] New Travel Policy - **IMPORTANT**

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Nick and all,

  Thank  you for your info and insight.

  However my guess is that what you are proposing is not in the
cards, as it were.  Frankly there is no good reason for ICANN to
provide any At-Large funding for travel in that the cost isn't
offset by enough if any benifit as the ALAC/At-Large doesn't
seem to be representing any significant number of users.

  Yet, I still wish you luck in your smoozing at MDR, Nick.  >:)

Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:

> Dear All:
>
> I thought you would wish to know that the travel policy referred to inferentially in the Board resolution in Paris has not yet been finalised, and therefore there has been no decision (one way or the other) to change the travel for At-Large as defined immediately below, so you may wish to keep the draft, when completed, ‘in your pocket’ as it were until the decision is announced. Or, of course, you could phrase it in such a way as to take account of the non-finalised-state of the policy.
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> I can say that I am told a decision will be reached imminently, and I will be in MdR next week and will let everyone know as soon as there is news.
>
> I would remind you all that I have on many occasions stated that the situation pre-FY2009, in which:
>
> At-Large received travel funding for 35 people to each meeting;
> Nominating Committee appointees received travel support
> All other communities received no funding
>
> Was going to change when a policy for volunteers was adopted, and that the result of that policy would almost certainly result in some level of travel support for those heretofore receiving none, and less support for those heretofore receiving the most.
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> I also said pretty clearly on multiple occasions that if the Summit proposal was approved, there would certainly be a reduction in the travel support for the community to the other two meetings during the financial year (no ‘doubling up’ of support).
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> This is not by way of trying to suggest that you should not make any points on the subject you feel should be made – on the contrary, you should say what you think should be said.
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> One thing about the contents I would suggest you modify – the EURALO GA met for the first time in Paris, but the EURALO itself has met several times previously using ICANN travel support. You may wish to modify that line in the statement to make it more accurate.
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> On 01/08/2008 15:55, "Thompson, Darlene" <DThompson at GOV.NU.CA> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> During the meetings in Paris is came to light that the Board put through a resolution to reduce ALAC’s travel.  This was slipped through and didn’t even follow the wording in the “Draft Travel Support Procedure” document of May 22, 2008.  We owe a huge THANK YOU to Alan Greenburg for catching this as neither Evan nor I nor the rest of the ALAC caught this when it happened.  The affects of these cuts to the ALAC travel would mean:
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> 1.      Only ½ of the ALAC would be funded for travel for meetings – the rest would have to self-fund
> 2.      No Secretariats or Chairs attending meetings
> 3.      No travel support for ALSs to attend regional meetings.
>
> Therefore, it was decided during the last NARALO telephone conference that we convene a mini-WG (comprised of Gareth Shearman, Evan and myself) to come up with a formal response.  We have drafted the attached document.  Please have a look at this ASAP and get back to us (on or before Friday, August 8, 2008) with any changes or additions you might like OR stating that you do not support it at all (as we must have consensus).
>
> Thank you,
>
> D
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