See below On 11/05/07, karen banks <karenb@gn.apc.org> wrote:
hi nick
Sorry, I think there is a misunderstanding here. My apologies for helping to create one.
good to talk it through.. i hope i'm not the only one who doesn't know how these things work!
My pleasure :)
For the regional meetings, EACH ALS may designate one delegate. This means that not one or two people are coming from the regions, but much larger numbers.
you mean every ALS? but, isn't that in theory an infiinite number? i mean, how does ALAC manage a budget for an unknown quantity such as number of ALSs' ? (should i take this offline?)
This is a part of my job but yes, at some point, the number of ALSes will exceed the available funds. For the next coming FY, we have provided in the draft budget that 20 ALS delegates will get to attend each of the three ICANN Meetings. Once we get too big, then some internal agreement will need to be reached on how to pick those who go - there are many possible solutions but fortunately we don't need to "go there" yet.
As to who chooses to go: each ALS chooses who their delegate is.
yes, well that would make sense, just wondering about the money
but, what it does mean in principle, is that you can only get funding to attend ICANN through ALAC is you are a member of an ALS yes?
Or a candidate ALS at the time the invitations are issued.
this also sheds a bit of light on the suggestion from adam to add a fund to the ICANN general grant - they are clearly for different types of purpose - but, it makes me wonder about people who are potentially interested in ALAC, and may not be able to find their way in via an ALS.. maybe (in future, for discussion etc) there's scope for the odd grant to cover these people..
Perhaps so.
karen
karen
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