I am concerned about the new proposed budget ICANN released, in the way it is presented. You cannot really find how much exactly ALAC's budget is allocated from the documents.
From the slide, "ICANN Fiscal Year 2008 Proposed Budget Overview" at page 4, it is under "Outreach" and combined with Fellowship and totals to $1,068K
Then at page 21 of "Proposd Budget Fiscal Year 2007-2008," more detailed version dated 17 May says "Outreach" includes Ombudsman ($449K), Media Transparency ($1,040K), Fellowship ($308K), Board & SOAC Travel ($1,464K) etc... We need more accurate and transparent figures for the AtLarge Budget. Something like: ALAC Travel Cost RALO/ALS Travel Cost RALO Regional Meeting Cost AtLarge Staff Cost/Regional Staff Cost ALAC related Communications cost (ie Web, wiki, Conf call) ALAC Review Cost etc. AND, we also need the record of previous expenditures so that we can compare them. thanks, izumi -- >> Izumi Aizu << Institute for HyperNetwork Society Kumon Center, Tama University * * * * * << Writing the Future of the History >> www.anr.org