Hi,
As we will have our next call tomorrow, I thought it could be
helpful to share with you some notes I have taken during our call
last week.
Please take in consideration that these are only notes, and should
not be considered as agreed principles or agreed ideas.
Notes
There is obligation to participate in meetings when recieving
financing for attending them.
Should there be guidelines for using funds or / and attending
meetings?
Should it be some feedback after the meetings? Or this brings a lot
of work to council members...
Constituencies should be free to allocate in a transpartent process
a certain amount of founds assigned to them
There should be flexibility for constituencies in using these funds,
so they could decide
There should be an annual ammount assigned per constituency.
The GNSO Council should not get involved as council in how these
funds are used, once they are assigned to constituencies
Should there be a contingency budget?
What happens with other required face to face meetings like, for
example, new gtlds?
Regards
Olga
2008/10/15 Olga Cavalli <olgac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dear collegues,
thanks a lot for those who participated in the call, we had a very
interesting exchange of ideas.
Considering that our due date for the outcome report is November
21st, the proposed next steps are:
- Each of you will send some paragraphs related with the ideas that
were rised during the call
- Once they arrive I will start drafting a document
- The document will be discussed in the list and during our next call
- Nex call date and time will be set up though a doodle that Glen
will send, proposed dates are Wed 22, Thrusd. 23 or Fri. 24.
Ken, please coud you be so kind to send to the list the summary of
issues that you expressed on the call? I think it was an excellent
synthesis of many of the ideas that we exchanged.
Thanks to all and regards.
Olga
2008/10/15 Tim Ruiz <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Avri wrote:
> Or, how do we define need? If I were a millionaire, but had no
> employer to send me would I be in need of support? If I have an
> employer, but they are in bankruptcy proceedings, do I have need?
Those questions get to my point about constituencies supporting
themselves. It's not about a single individual's financial ability,
or about their specific employer's financial situation. It's about
the membership of the constituency as a whole and whether or not
it is financially capable of funding its operation and
participation within the process. If, for good reason, it is not,
then that is an issue for a broader consideration regarding
financial assistance.
For example, if it is deemed vital to the best interests of ICANN
to have a registrants' constituency but funding its participation
is an issue, it may be decided that a certain level of financial
support is appropriate. But that should be decided on a
constituency by constituency basis, not on an individual
participant basis.
Tim
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [gnso-travel-dt] Travel drafting team mailing
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From: Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, October 09, 2008 3:00 pm
To: gnso-travel-dt@xxxxxxxxx
On 9 Oct 2008, at 12:32, Tim Ruiz wrote:
> If we have to resort to random selection or giggle tests, then we
have
> no business accepting the funds.
>
I personally see no relation between the utility of a random method of
selecting after the constituencies are determined their priorities and
the notion of meriting support for council member travel.
> Ken's ideas are the best way
> forward, or at least a good start,
Can you explain how his ideas would work in a way that was assuredly
unbiased and objective?
Some questions that immediately occur to me:
How would you eliminate the ability of someone to put pressure on one
of those selected for this independent committee? What does it mean
for there to be an independent committee within ICANN? Can members of
GNSO constituencies serve on this independent committee? How are
these committee members chosen? Is their work transparent?
As for getting beyond the giggle test in determining need, how does
one do that. What sort of verification of someone's need will be
required? The get a loan for my daughter's college i had to prove
need and todo so had to fill out the FAFSA ( see
http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/before012.htm
for a sample worksheet). Are you suggesting something similar. If
not, how do you prove need?
Or, how do we define need? If I were a millionaire, but had no
employer to send me would I be in need of support? If I have an
employer, but they are in bankruptcy proceedings, do I have need?
I believe these and many other similar questions would need to be
answered for there to be an objective set of criteria that could not
be gamed or be subjected to influence.
a.
note: for those who may not know the giggle test. Basically someone
says "I have need", and if they can say it without most people
starting to giggle, then that need statement i accepted.