All, As you know we have submitted to ICANN 13 people who will be funded to travel to Sydney. We had an allocation of 18 to be used by the end of June 2009 and therefore have not taken up 5. I have been approached by the GAC Chair, Janis Karklins, who says: "As you may be aware, the GAC is currently working through mechanisms to ensure least and less developed country participation and securing financial support for their participation through the ICANN operational and budget planning process. As this processes and a proposed approach is for the next fiscal year, we are faced with some attendees needing support for the ICANN Sydney meeting. Would the ccNSO have space through its travel support from ICANN and if so, would it be willing to share its unused travel support for 3 to 4 government representatives from developing or least developed countries? The GAC stands ready to discuss with ccNSO or ICANN staff the administrative details in case of your favorable response." I have checked with Doug Brent and Theresa Swinehart who say that we would not 'share' any unused support but rather we would simply confirm to ICANN that we have no objection to them reallocating our unused support to some nominees put forward by the GAC. I think we should do this in the spirit of cooperation. Does anyone object? Cheers, Chris Disspain CEO - auDA au Domain Administration Ltd <mailto:ceo@auda.org.au> ceo@auda.org.au <http://www.auda.org.au/> www.auda.org.au Important Notice - This email may contain information which is confidential and/or subject to legal privilege, and is intended for the use of the named addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose or copy any part of this email. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately. Please consider the environment before printing this email.