Implementing the per diem now means that everyone has much less paperwork to deal with - participants do not have to collect and keep receipts, and indeed can even put through their per-diem forms now, so that they can be approved and paid much more quickly than if you have to wait until you get home, fill in and send off the forms, etc. It is not that the system wasn't ready, it is that a judgment was made to pay after the fact, instead of before, for this meeting, with that decision to be reviewed between the end of this meeting and the next. I hope this helps. On 13 Jun 2007, at 19:59, alice wrote:
Jacqueline A. Morris wrote:
There should be no problem in San Juan either. I don't know why unless it is that they haven't finished setting up the system for managing per diem. But it's quite easy - set up a room, have the US cash, let everyone line up and sign a receipt for the $$. Should not be hard at all. It's much more difficult to run the bank transfer process, sending funds to multiple countries etc.
Agree. And I have no problem with the per diem policy. Suggestion: if the system for managing per diem is not ready for San Juan, why not let the old system run until ICANN is ready to implement the new?
alice
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