Hello Alan,
I appreciate that the Board is suggesting that costs of using the MEM to enforce fundamental Bylaws will be covered by ICANN.
Correct.
Is it also the intent of the proposal submitted by the Board that IRP costs incurred by AC/SOs enforcing regular Bylaws by covered by ICANN?
That is not in the Board comments, and the Board doesn't have a position on that at this time. Ultimately this becomes a budget question. I am personally OK with some sort of budget for an SO or AC to be able to challenge whether the Board has followed its bylaws. I think it needs to be capped at some amount for any given year. I guess we could stop having face-to-face public ICANN meetings, and put the savings from the travel and meetings budget into a larger budget for the community to spend on legal fees :-) It would also force us all to be more effective at using online collaboration tools. Regards, Bruce Tonkin