Dear Katrina, I think its in order for us to ask for more funding. This will enable more members to attend meetings Regards, Abdalla On Jan 13, 2017 4:52 PM, Katrina Sataki <katrina@nic.lv> wrote:

Nigel,

Thank you very much for pushing this forward.

My undersanding is: 1) ccNSO has never asked for increase in travel funding since 2008 when the concept was first introduced. 2) if we decide to ask for an increase we must do it NOW as FY 2018 is in the phase of active preparation and is due to public comments already in March (correct me if I'm wrong). It means that it might be too late to raise the issue in Copenhagen because then we can aim only for FY 2019.

Therefore if the Council decides that we should ask for more funded seats (any proposals?) then we should send a request ASAP. Please express your support or objections by 20 January.

Kind regards,

]{atrina

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ccnso-council@icann.org [mailto:owner-ccnso-council@icann.org] On Behalf Of Nigel Roberts Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 10:09 PM To: ccnso-council@icann.org Subject: [ccnso-council] Item for AOB - running out of time

About a year ago, we had some informal discussions with Xavier that was aimed at understanding the requirements on the Council for the allocation of resources for funding Council members and others to ICANN meetings.

Strangely (to me) this turned out to not be predicated on on a budget, but on 'per seat' basis. Two questions arise from this answer :-

- what requirement (e.g. from Finance or ICANN Board) is there on the ccNSO to allocate funds differentially between different classes of members

- where does the differential between ccNSO number of seats and (e.g.) ALAC and GAC come from?

This inquiry fell by the wayside.

I wish to suggest a small informal meeting in CPH including Chair or one of the Vice-Chairs, and myself (since I've been doing the research) and one other Council Member (perhaps from LAC or Africa?).

Situation has worked, by-and-large, this last few years, largely becuase of the support given from large registries who do not need travel support for their elected Councillors.

But I can see it could inhibit good candidates from developing regions and also small registries in other regions.

On the assumption Council continues to approve of this line of inquiry, I shall see if I can arrange something.

Council is asked if it objects to this further inquiry