Well There's outreach funding as well as the RALO annual meetings (agreed to in the RALO MoUs) But this is not supposed to be a feeding trough. If you go to a meeting, it's supposed to further ICANN's aims, not just pay for you to go to a meeting that you can't afford or don't want to pay for. Jacqueline Danny Younger wrote:
Hi Jacqueline,
All that I have seen thus far is from the Apralo monthly meeting summaries wherein grant support for the IGF Hyderabad session and grant support for the APNG Camp is being or has been requested.
I am at loss to understand what ICANN's justification would be for funding these endeavors. Is ICANN now in the charitable grant giving business?
Hmmmm.... perhaps all of North American ALSs should attend the upcoming NANOG conference in Brooklyn, or the next IETF session on ICANN's dime, or perhaps ICANN should pay to have every single LAC ALS attend a General Assembly to discuss IGF, ICT4D and GAID.
Giving out monies without a clear-cut disbursement policy (that demonstrates a benefit to the entirety of the ICANN Community on DNS-specific matters) strikes me as a horribly bad idea.
regards, Danny
--- "Jacqueline A. Morris" <jam@jacquelinemorris.com> wrote:
That's the position - no funding from ICANN for ALS activities. Haven't seen a change in the bylaws indicating that ICANN will fund ALSes... and I would strongly disagree with it were it suggested.
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