[Ccwg-auctionproceeds] Fwd: [CORRESPONDENCE] Request for input from ICANN Board - CCWG-AP

[Alan Greenberg]

At 07/10/2018 11:00 AM, John R. Levine wrote:
>>BUT, For later discussion : am not sure what Bd thinks it is saying 
>>re whether or what funding an SO/AC community can apply. NONE of 
>>the SO/AC/constituencies are legally affiliated w ICANN.
>
>I believe the question is whether the SO or AC itself could ask for 
>money, e.g., the SSAC asks for money to study some security issue or the GNSO
>asks for money for some study about perceptions of new TLDs.
>
>I don't think anyone considers the members of an SO or AC to be 
>inherently conflicted.
>
>R's,
>John

Correct. An AC, SO or SO Council is a creature of the ICANN Bylaws 
and if it were to apply, it is really ICANN applying. But and ALS for 
the ALAC or member of the GNSO (through one of its constituent 
parts), or a ccTLD, could apply.

Alan