> My fault for assuming everyone had been at the same meeting. Although not
> actually stated we had been talking about the volunteers from the various
> community groups on the CCWG. And Alan's suggestion that community
> volunteers would not have the same commitment as paid experts. Somehow
> that's understandable.. but is it right?

No, of course not.

I think I'm a member of the community, but I've done paid work for ICANN.
Evaluating grant proposals is a significant amount of work, so you pay
people to do it, no matter where they come from.  It doesn't have to be a
vast amount of money but it has to be enough that people treat it as a
commitment.

You avoid conflict of interest in the obvious way -- you can send in
proposals or you can evaluate them, but you can't do both.

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