Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Government eligibility for JAS support

[Alain Berranger <alain.berranger@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1

Alain

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
<michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 21 Nov 2011, at 18:12, Alan Greenberg wrote:
>
>> True, public funding is fungable, but so is pretty much any money. Large 
>> corporations pay their executives huge bonuses and claim poverty. Charities 
>> ask for money to help kids in need, and spend most of their money of staff 
>> and fundraising. It is all judgement calls, and I don't think that the 
>> situation is particualrly worse for public bodies.
>>
>> As I said earlier, I am not a particularly strong advocate of allowing 
>> non-national governments to participate, but I don't have really good 
>> arguments to disallow them either, other than some governments have 
>> sufficient discretionary funds to not need the support.
>
> Well the one I would have is that there are only finite resources going to be 
> available for anything. If semi-state body X or regional government Y is 
> getting funds then there's less to go around ..
>
>>
>> Regarding gov't agencies that lost public funding, As far as I am concerned, 
>> it is the gov't that they belong to that we would be judging, not the 
>> agency, they would not be eligible if their parent gov't was not eligible.
>
> By that logic then (and it's good logic) then any government body would not 
> be eligible ..
>
> Regards
>
> Michele
>
>>
>> Alan
>
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