Cheryl, Please forward this message to whomever sits on the Budget & Finance SubCommittee. At the meeting scheduled for 18 April the subcommittee will discuss agenda item 6 (Listing of Community-Identified Priorities for 2008/2009 with a Budgetary Dimension) which includes a request by the APRALO for "Funding to sponsor the APNG Camp in Thailand (Outreach)". The APNG Camp annually draws about 50 participants. It has an executive committee that includes a number of well-known ICANN luminaries such as Tommy Matsumoto (former ALAC member), Kilnam Chon and Paul Wilson. It has an Advisory Board that also includes figures well-known in ICANN circles such as Tan Tin Wee and Jun Murai (former ICANN Board Director). The APNG Steering Committee includes people like Izumi Aizu (current ALAC member) and James Seng. Its At-Large Committee includes Qian Hualin (former ICANN Board director and Hong Xue (current ALAC member). At last year's camp, Tuesday morning saw a presentation on "ICANN ALAC and APRALO activities". This is probably the one organization in the world for which an ALAC Outreach effort is most definately not required. The Camp is primarily populated by those that know ICANN all too well -- they have no need of an outreach effort as their own internal committees and members are all fully familiar with the ALAC and RALO and ICANN processes. Spending funds on this initiative ostensibly on behalf of "outreach" is not only a waste of monies, but it's an insult to the integrity of the ALAC funds disbursement process. The ALAC should not be in the business of funding junkets. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com