The RyC approved the following position regarding travel funding for Sydney today. Travel Funding for Sydney - RyC Position 1 Apr 09 At this time the RyC requests full travel funding for one person to attend and participate in the ICANN Sydney meetings in June 2009. For the funding associated with the remaining three slots allocated to the RyC for the current fiscal year, the RyC recommends any FY09 travel funds allocated to the RyC left over at the end of June be rolled over to FY10 for use by the RyC for future travel needs for GNSO activities. Regarding the use of DNSO funds still remaining on ICANN books, the RyC believes that a good use of those funds for the benefit of the whole community in the long term would be to use them for improving the capacity for remote participation in an effective manner and thereby minimizes the heavy dependence on in-person participation. We believe that this would scale much better and be a much more fiscally responsible approach over the longer term than continuing to try to subsidize travel expenses for what likely will be a growing need of GNSO participants in the future. Chuck