[NA-Discuss] Operational Plan and Budget for 2009

[Alan Greenberg]

I looked at the document only very briefly in Mexico City, and I have 
not had the time to go back to it until now.

If I remember correctly, it was distributed at roughly the time of 
the Tuesday? RALO meetings, and we were told that it is very 
important that ALAC comment, since our future depends on it (or 
something like that). I was therefore moderately surprised to see no 
apparent reference to ALAC or At-Large.

If you look at the ICANN Strategic Plan, we are hardly mentioned at 
all - primarily in the section on completing periodic reviews and in 
the section on strengthening the multi-stakeholder model. Pretty mush 
where you would expect us to show up.

In a broader context, I am not entirely sure there SHOULD be a lot of 
reference to ALAC/At-large in the Operational Plan and Budget. Or 
that being very visible with large chucks of money would be a 
blessing - more like an easy target from my point of view.

What I would like to see is a breakdown of what explicit ALAC and 
At-Large budgets are (and where they fit in the overall budget and 
how they compare to previous years). Then we can make a rational 
decision on whether to be outraged or to sit there with a small Mona 
Lisa smile on out collective face.

I will follow up and try to get those numbers.

Alan

At 30/03/2009 07:24 PM, Brendler, Beau wrote:
>I think it needs a reality check via Alan, who has been strongly 
>involved with travel process and budgeting, but if true, I strongly 
>support the sentiment.
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>[na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Gareth 
>Shearman [shearman at victoria.tc.ca]
>Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:50 PM
>To: Thompson, Darlene
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>Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Operationan Plan and Budget for 2009
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>Well, it certainly strikes me as a legitimate concern.  How do the
>rest of you feel?
>
>Gareth
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>On 30-Mar-09, at 2:09 PM, Thompson, Darlene wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > Andres Piazza forwarded the following link to me:
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> > http://mm2.icann.org/transbot_archive/e6dbc6bf91.html
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> > LACRALO is discussing this right now to see if they are going to
> > support it and was wondering if NARALO would want to do something
> > similar.
> >
> > Discussion?  Thoughts?
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> > D
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> > Darlene A. Thompson
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