Hi, Yes, it is important to find out who in the next two weeks. Two things: - Doug in his message indicated that they would be coming out with a FAQ answering all of the questions that had been raised. I suggest anyone with questions raise them today if possible. - Do we need to schedule a special council meeting in the next two week to discuss just this issue? Some comments below. On 18 Aug 2008, at 03:22, Philip Sheppard wrote:
Well its good to see the maths has improved. In terms of allocation we very much need to decide who. I would suggest given the limited nature of this funding that it applies to only elected Council members. This thus excludes nom com (who are funded by another budget),
I thin it is the same budget, just different allocation within that budget. i believe that the council minus NCAs has 10 slots to fill.
and excludes liaisons who should be funded by their own base organisation's budget.
I believe that should be the case. Though if a liaison is not a supported member of their organization, i.e. if ALAC picks a non ALAC member as a liaison I do not know how they are covered. In this case, I think Alan is an NCA assigned to ALAC and thus should be covered under ALAC's allocation. Of course the same does not apply to our GC liaison, but I think that is a moot point.
This seems to be the basis for the budget thinking anyway. Given that, then in terms of subsequent allocation that should be done by constituency - the body best placed to determine need.
Even if we decide as a council that we will leave picking the person to the constituency, we still need to figure out as a council how to allocate 10 to 6 constituencies.
There is of course an ethical dimension to the use of these limited funds that those parties who benefit from business opportunity as a result of ICANN policy may wish to consider before accepting funding. Whether this ethical dimension applies equally to the BC - as a function to our recently growing membership of domainers - is to my mind an interesting question.
I think it is a complicated question for everyone employed in an industry that profits from the domain name business. This is perhaps one reason why using need as a criterion may be reasonable - even if it is the constituency that provides the names of their council members who are in need of support. a.