Here's the proposed text I will send later this evening as a official statement from LACRALO. I know that there was support to endorse EURALO's statement, but I've added additional statements re:travel support that I think needs to be said. So comments on the below statement are welcome. Dev Anand Teelucksingh Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society, LACRALO Secretariat ------------------------------------------------------- Dear Sir On behalf of the LACRALO, I wish to submit the following comments on the "Proposed Framework for ICANN's FY10 Operating Plan and Budget". The Latin American and Caribbean Regional At-Large Organisation endorses the text of the EURALO's statement on the Operational Plan and Budget as posted at http://forum.icann.org/lists/op-budget-fy2010/msg00006.html. ICANN needs to fund travel support for all constituencies (ALAC, At-Large, GNSO, SSAC, etc.) to participate at their meetings and should not increase travel support for a constituency at the expense of another. ICANN should identify potential cost savings by doing a cost breakdown for each meeting venue, where the costs (airline costs, accommodations, per-diem, etc) of having the constituencies from each region present at such a meeting identified and compared with other meeting venues. A possible outcome of such an excercise would be identifying meeting venues which could be used by ICANN on a regular basis. ------------------------------------------------------------------