Can I interject a tiny opinion... I remember going to some important-sounding small meeting at the ICANN in Brussels, I forget what, perhaps an "ISP meeting" as I often attended those. A guest speaker from the ICANN staff was introduced and we were told he would give a presentation and the slides etc came out. It was about an hour on how to properly fill out travel expense reports, apparently they had changed format. I say about an hour because eventually I left when it seemed there was no further order of business. I've never received any travel support from ICANN. My point is, and that's not the only experience like that, travel funding and policies certainly fascinate many "participants" to the point of, dare I say, distraction. Look at all of the sudden activity on this list when it came up! Is failure to attend a session on obtaining and managing travel funding an offense? Is attending one an offense? Can't it just be summarized as "point noted!" and spun off into the development of some sort of preferably brief and to the point policy document that basically says defrauding ICANN (et al) out of travel funding is frowned upon? That is, is there any work product from all this discussion being proposed? -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*