<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I was listening to the recording of the call. Starting round about the 25-minute marker, the discussion came on about incentivising volunteers. Mention was made of travel support as an incentive. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I wish to go on record to oppose in the strongest possible terms this notion that travel support be recognized as an incentive. It is wrong-headed and trivializes the sacrifices of volunteers. My position is not new and this declaration is merely a reprise from my earliest days caucusing with the At-Large constituency. All of it is on the record. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I am also on record advocating that at the minimum, volunteer input of time be valorized and included in all estimation of costs pertaining names and numbers policy development. I have always found it irksome that everyday corporate reporting finds a place for 'goodwill' but ICANN seems unable to corral and label volunteer time input.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">First of all, the bald fact is while all volunteers are equal, some are more equal than others. For some, names and numbers policy development is a day job and compensated in the ordinary. For others of us, we volunteer as an act of social responsibility, favouring the public good without compensation or any expectation of recompense whatsoever. Travelling to an ICANN meeting is baked into the operational mode for names and numbers policy development. Travel support is a tool for volunteers that enables participation in advancing the mission to which we have severally committed. And this false narrative about it has enabled volunteers to comfortably discount their obligations to policy development for tourist junkets. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Maybe it's because I sell knowledge for fee. I bill by the hour or the [8-hour] day. I know the opportunity cost, what I forgo in fee and possible income for my participation. I have plied more than two (2) million actual air miles for my working life. For me, travelling for more than 4 hours in a coach seat on an aeroplane is not a needful condition of service. Neither is it a gift. For more than 8 years and when I was employed as a senior administrator, I routinely gave up my vacation time to attend ICANN meetings. And in attending those meetings, I routinely spend my own money to make myself more comfortable; I am 6ft 3" tall.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I still do and will continue to invest my own resources as a volunteer. I will resist and voice opposition to any such effort to label travel support as an incentive.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Kind regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Carlton Samuels <span style="font-size:large"> </span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>==============================<br><i><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Carlton A Samuels</font></i><br><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><i>Mobile: 876-818-1799<br><font color="#33CC00">Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround</font></i></font><br>=============================</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 9:19 AM Nathalie Peregrine <<a href="mailto:nathalie.peregrine@icann.org">nathalie.peregrine@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">All recordings for the<span class="gmail-m_3219282011672425036apple-converted-space"> </span>GNSO Standing Selection Committee<span class="gmail-m_3219282011672425036apple-converted-space"><span style="background:white"> </span></span><span style="background:white">held
on <b>Thursday, </b></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">14</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> January
2021 at 13:00 UTC<span class="gmail-m_3219282011672425036apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">can be found<span class="gmail-m_3219282011672425036apple-converted-space"> </span>on the<span class="gmail-m_3219282011672425036apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/GSSC/2021-01-14+GNSO+Standing+Selection+Committee" target="_blank">agenda
wiki page </a><span style="color:black">(attendance included)<span class="gmail-m_3219282011672425036apple-converted-space"> </span>and the<span class="gmail-m_3219282011672425036apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar/2021" title="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gnso.icann.org_en_group-2Dactivities_calendar&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=PDd_FX3f4MVgkEIi9GHvVoUhbecsvLhgsyXrxgtbL10DTBs0i1jYiBM_uTSDzgqG&m=lhHF0M6JaIYeLBnC3Q9bqu2sZWPv1nLAg" target="_blank">GNSO
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Attendance (please let me know if your name has been left off the attendance list)</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Audio<span class="gmail-m_3219282011672425036apple-converted-space"> </span>recording</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Zoom chat archive</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Zoom recording (including audio, visual, rough transcript)</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Transcript</span><u></u><u></u></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Kind Regards,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Nathalie</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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