[registrars] Motion on Travel Funding

[Ross Rader]

On 11-Dec-07, at 11:19 AM, Adrian Kinderis wrote:

> We, as representatives to the Council are just getting used to this  
> idea
> of presenting things to the Constituency... it is a pretty new  
> concept.

As a side note, I'd say that we have a great track record of  
consulting with our members. Our website doesn't really reflect this,  
but there are a great volume of position papers and votes going back  
to the founding days that show the extent to which our elected  
representatives have involved the constituency membership in  
fundamental decisions. Of course, not every question is vetted by the  
constituency, but the practice has typically been to ensure that our  
reps solicit and understand the general position of the constituency  
before trying to advocate it (i.e with Whois, there was not only an  
initial assessment of the constituency position dating back to 2000 or  
thereabouts, but also several checkpoints along the way. I would also  
say that tracking the real position became very difficult in the last  
year because it seemed to become very fragmented in my estimation -  
i.e., there were probably 5-6 positions that had varying degrees of  
support within the constituency and few of them were consistent with  
each other, or the general direction of the then current policy  
discussion...)

Ross Rader
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