[council] Travel support draft text

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

I believe the next step, once we have a document that is stable from  
the drafting team and has all the edits people on the council want to  
contribute, is to have a motion on making this the GNSO policy on  
distributing the funds.  I also think it would probably be good to get  
constituency and public feedback on this motion and the document  
before we vote.

We also need to make sure that we understand the conditions under  
which the staff will allow the constituencies to:

> The use of travel support funds is to be solely determined by each  
> constituency independently as it sees fit to most effectively  
> progress the work of the GNSO.

Ie. are we still under the all or nothing regime or has the staff  
decided to allow room, expense and travel to be allocated separately  
by the constituencies.  I understand they have not accepted a proposal  
to allow the funds to be allocated directly by the constituencies (or  
do I misunderstand).

We also need to get this done soon, as the next meetings allocations  
are fast approaching.

a.


On 10 Dec 2008, at 17:01, Tim Ruiz wrote:

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> Agree. So what are the next steps?
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> Tim
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [council] Travel support draft text
> From: Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org>
> Date: Wed, December 10, 2008 12:34 pm
> To: Greg Ruth <greg_ruth at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Olga Cavalli <olgac at fibertel.com.ar>, Philip Sheppard
> <philip.sheppard at aim.be>, Council GNSO <council at gnso.icann.org>
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> Yes, this change makes sense.
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> On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Greg Ruth wrote:
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> I agree with this change.
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> Greg
> From: Olga Cavalli <olgac at fibertel.com.ar>
> To: Philip Sheppard <philip.sheppard at aim.be>
> Cc: Council GNSO <council at gnso.icann.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:11:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [council] Travel support draft text
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> Phillip,
> yo make a good suggestion.
> I personally agree. If I do not hear any other comments I will rewrite
> the draft document.
> We should review this issue during our next conference call.
> Best
> Olga
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> 2008/12/8 Philip Sheppard <philip.sheppard at aim.be>
> Olga, thanks for circulating this.
> Seems fine.
> On reporting I think we can be transparent without being bureaucratic
> and burdensome on volunteers.
> There is no merit in 15 Council members all writing a report saying "I
> attended a Council meeting".
> Moreover, I presume the system is that Constituencies nominate who  
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> the support but then the individual still needs to apply to ICANN  
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> for that support ?
> If so staff is fully informed of who gets what and other staff is  
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> informed of who attended what.
> Suggest the following instead:
> Philip
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> Transparency and Reporting:
> ICANN staff will publish the names of all those who receive travel
> support together with a list of the relevant meeting(s) for which the
> support was given and which were attended by the support recipient.
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