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RE: [gnso-travel-dt] Chair Travel Funding
- To: "Avri Doria" <avri@xxxxxxx>, <gnso-travel-dt@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: [gnso-travel-dt] Chair Travel Funding
- From: "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:51:48 -0400
To my knowledge, the answer to both questions may be "no".
Chuck
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnso-travel-dt@xxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-gnso-travel-dt@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Avri Doria
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 5:57 PM
> To: gnso-travel-dt@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [gnso-travel-dt] Chair Travel Funding
>
>
> Hi,
>
> My questions:
>
> - has the GNSO ever gained funding for anyone to travel for
> anything other than an ICANN meeting?
>
> - is there any budgeted source of funding from which this could come?
>
> a.
>
>
>
> On 15 Mar 2010, at 17:18, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
>
> > Olga
> >
> > I want to request guidance from the GNSO Travel DT
> regarding a special travel funding issue before bringing it
> to the Council.
> >
> > I have been invited to participate in the Russia IGF in my
> capacity as GNSO Council Chair. It is scheduled for May
> 13-14. Because I will be doing this not as a representative
> of VeriSign, there is not a reasonable business case to
> request VeriSign to fund my travel, so I would like to get
> feedback from the members of the Travel DT with regard to this.
> >
> > First of all, let me say that I have never used ICANN
> provided travel funding to attend ICANN meetings and I do not
> plan to do that for any of the scheduled ICANN in-person
> meeting scheduled this year. The reasons for this are: 1) I
> do not want there to be even a perception of conflict at
> those meetings when I wear my multiple hats of Council Chair,
> RySG representative and VeriSign representative; 2) the RySG
> consistently took a position that it opposed ICANN travel
> funding except in cases of demonstrated need.
> >
> > Second, let me say that I understand that the Travel
> Funding practice to date has been for ICANN sponsored events
> and that the Russia IGF is not in that category. So one of
> the problems would be the possibility of setting precedents
> for other travel needs in similar situations. For example,
> Other countries or geographical regions also hold their own
> IGF meetings, so what would happen if I am invited to those
> as well, to represent the GNSO? I think this is a legitimate
> concern. All I can say is that I was first contacted about
> the Russia IGF over six months in advance of the meeting and
> I have not been invited to any other country/regional IGF
> meetings for 2010 or after. Clearly, if ICANN funding is
> considered for this, it would need to be done with the
> limitation that travel funds are available and that this
> instance would be a one-time consideration; any similar
> requests in my role as chair would have to be vetted
> independently and would have to have similar advance !
> notice like was given with the Russia IGF.
> >
> > I also recognize that ICANN has had to trim expenses and I
> would not want to negatively impact the ability of any GNSO
> members to receive travel funding to the Brussels meeting as
> a result of my request.
> >
> > Any thoughts that any members of the Travel DT, including
> negative ones, would be appreciated. I promised both Theresa
> Swinehart and Kevin Wilson that I would get back to them on
> this but have waiting raising it because of the huge number
> of issues that we have been dealing with in the GNSO.
> >
> > Chuck
>
>
>
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