Hong, I'm sorry if my mentioning you by name was taken in any way to reflect negatively on you. And it certainly is not a reflection on your excellent work on IDNs. Unfortunately, you are the only regular Liaison that we have to a potentially unfunded group who is not already funded (this year anyway) by ICANN. Robert and Carlos would probably not get funding as their Liaison positions to the SSAC and NCUC are not mandated by the By-Laws. But they are already ALAC members. Liaisons to GNSO and ccNSO are By-Law mandates, and if not held by ALAC members, are funded under the new rules (perhaps not 100% of course). So it was the only way I could think of to illustrate the case. In prior years, ICANN has funded travel for positions such as yours, but the new proposal does not seem to. Again, sorry if it was not clear what I was trying to say. Alan At 13/08/2008 08:44 PM, Hong Xue wrote:

With respect to this newly released document, I don't understand why I'm singled out for this policy analysis. Is it a negative comment on my work or for any other reasonable?