To be clear, the two "official" ones, that is, the ones that are specified in the ICANN Bylaws, are for the GNSO and the ccNSO. At the moment, I don't require separate funding, as I am already covered, and RUdi told us tha ttravel funding was not an issue when he put his name up for the ccNSO position. So in theory we could have two unused funding slots. Of course, we may discuss the appropriateness of funding Rudi *if* we actually get these requested funds. When we opened our Liaison slots last time, we said that we preferred committee members for two reasons: a) there would likely be better communications; and b) no additional travel funds would be required. I think that in many casees, the first reason will be the most important one. I am not sure what our chances are of making the other Liaisons more "official". The IDN one has indeed been VERY official, and for some years it also had travel funding. So bottom line, what we are asking for does give us some reasonable flexibility, and I would be reluctant to ask for too much more given that the chances are good that we might not even be able to use it. Alan At 23/03/2009 11:44 AM, Sébastien Bachollet wrote:

Hello, My only concern is with the liaisons. ALAC have 2 official ones' but also some "no-official ones'" We need to work on "officialising" like ccNSO, IDN, NCSG/NCUC... and hopefully one day GAC... All the best

Sébastien Bachollet Président d'honneur - Isoc France sebastien.bachollet@isoc.fr www.egeni.org www.isoc.fr

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-----Message d'origine----- De : alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge- lists.icann.org] De la part de Alan Greenberg Envoyé : vendredi 20 mars 2009 06:12 À : ALAC Working List Objet : [ALAC] Draft statement on travel funding for approval at ALAC meeting - 24Mar09 Importance : Haute

As discussed in Mexico City, ICANN is in the process of developing its 2009-2010 Travel Procedure and Budget, and it was felt important for the ALAC to quickly identify its needs and formally submit them to ICANN.

The draft document is attached in both PDF and WORD format.

Please take whatever actions are necessary to be able to vote on this important measure at next week's meeting. You may forward certainly it to your RALO lists if appropriate.

Although I am sure they are not very good, I have provided machine translations for: French - http://alangreenberg.org/ICANN/Travel-F.htm and Spanish: http://alangreenberg.org/ICANN/Travel-S.htm.

Regards, Alan