Thank you Philip. I would second such a motion. May I suggest that we simplify things and leave out the first paragraph? May I suggest adding a date in the second paragraph, i.e. staff must nominate a fixed sum by mid Jan (just an example, I have no idea if that date is feasible)? This so that we move forward long enough before the first ICANN meeting of 2009 so that both staff and constituencies have the time to make their arrangements. Thanks, Stéphane Le 18/12/08 15:16, « Philip Sheppard » <philip.sheppard@aim.be> a écrit :
Alternate motion for travel. Proposed Philip Stephane - would you second ? --------------------------------------------
Whereas: Council welcomes the fact that ICANN have allocated some funds for GNSO travel.
1. Council regrets that the current proposal imposes administrative difficulty and will thus detract from the total budget available if some budget will be needed to cover staff administration costs.
2. Council calls upon ICANN staff to nominate a fixed sum in 2009 that will be granted to each of the constituencies currently recognised under the ICANN by-laws of 29 May 2008. Such sum should exclude any budget to cover the costs of nom com delegates or GNSO chair travel.
3. Council requests Constituencies to publish the names of all those who receive travel support together with a list of the relevant meeting(s) for which the support was given and which were attended by the support recipient.