[NA-Discuss] [At-Large] Post-Paris Review

[Evan Leibovitch]

Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> Elisabeth Porteneuve ha scritto:
>   
>> Do you know if ICANN or ALAC keep statistics on funding travels, including 
>> number of ALAC participants per meeting. How many ALAC were in Paris, and 
>> how many with travel/accomodation support (and the same in former places)?
> In fact, it's never been possible to get public information on travel 
> funding by ICANN to any kind of ICANN-funded attendees.
It is true that ICANN makes the information difficult to attain --
indeed, any request for details on how much money is allocated to
At-Large generally results in evasion and obfuscation. However, it
should not be difficult for ALAC  itself (and/or ALAC support staff) to
provide a "roll call" of who attended, from the registration
information. This is helpful, not only for funding reasons, but also to
help At-Large be aware of who exactly is representing their interests at
each meeting.

(It is also interesting to match the list of registrations against
meeting attendance...)

There should be no reason to hide the basic attendance information.
Indeed, info on those who pre-registered is already online
(http://par.icann.org/attendees/).

For costs, I would personally prefer aggregate amounts -- "ALAC sent the
following people and it cost a total of $Y in travel expense". For much
the same reason that ICANN does not break out staff salaries from its
public budgets, I do not think it is helpful for the to world have
access to dissect which individuals' flights cost the most.

- Evan