Evan and all my friends, Somehow I knew you would say pretty close to what you did say in reaponse. If what your asserting than is so why is the ALAC Summit seeking ICANN funding? Hogwash indeed? Humm? Ergo Evan, me thinks you protest too much... This is not to say that trying to seek such wasn't worth a try! >:) BTW, hogs don't wash, the wallow! >:) All this exchange reminds me of another time in my past life, when once in Paris, I was out walking and found myself in a rather ceedy area of the city, and a young very attractive and provocatively dressed young woman approache me and ask me in good but heavely accented french if I was interested in some company. I relpied in my best french, "certainly, I am looking for a good resturante for dinner and she was welcome to join me and I would buy her dinner". She replied, "but sir, my price is 100 franks". So I immediately knew my dashing good looks and kind offer of a free dinner were not enough of an incentive for her company. A well, se la vi! So I tossed her a 5 frank piece and wet on my way... >:) Regards or should I say, bona patite, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827 Evan Leibovitch wrote:
Jeffrey A. Williams wrote:
ICANN should not fund such as the ALAC members should be able to "pass the hat" as it were to fund any and all Summit participants whom wish to attend, to do so. If done, such would show in and of itself, the viability of the ALAC accordingly.
This is absolute hogwash.
The members of ALSs were not brought here, in many cases actively solicited, because of their fundraising skills. To suggest that the viability (let alone success) of ALAC is to be judged on its ability to self-finance is to grotesquely miss the point of why it exists in the first place. But you certainly wouldn't be the first person to do that...
- Evan