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With a $0 budget. Get real.
That's incorrect. It is not a $0 budget.
You're right, it's a $0 budget for the RALO members. The ALAC is valuable to ICANN to provide the impression that it is less captured by contracted parties than it is. If ICANN thinks it's in its interest to have more organizations join the NARALO, ICANN should spend its money to recruit them, which to a modest extent it does. It is definitely not the job of the existing members to spend our time and money to go find more suckers^Whighly engaged organizations. R's, John
On 19/07/2012 17:02, John R. Levine wrote :
With a $0 budget. Get real.
That's incorrect. It is not a $0 budget.
You're right, it's a $0 budget for the RALO members.
The ALAC is valuable to ICANN to provide the impression that it is less captured by contracted parties than it is. If ICANN thinks it's in its interest to have more organizations join the NARALO, ICANN should spend its money to recruit them, which to a modest extent it does.
It is definitely not the job of the existing members to spend our time and money to go find more suckers^Whighly engaged organizations.
I knew we were in agreement somewhere and this is a point which the ALAC Finance & Budget sub-committee has been vocal about for a long time. The RALO requests, until a couple of years ago, were met with a resounding *no* from staff -- or simply ignored altogether. This year's requests were met with a more positive reply. Please be so kind to read through the Appendix of this year's operating plan & budget found on: http://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/adopted-opplan-budget-fy13-24jun12-... Now I agree that if you look at RALO (ALAC) requests, not all of them were financed. And some of the refusals appear surreal: for example, ICANN Studienkreis is not funded because it is a non-ICANN event. Last year, other requests were financed. And yes, the sums in play seem to be minimal compared to the overall ICANN budget. So there is much improvement required. I have faith that things *will* improve. But we also need to work together on our side to make sure funding does not get squandered and funding produces the results we want to achieve. "Spend carefully" has been the "modus operandi" so far. I have full confidence that if the new CEO, Fadi Chehade is serious about following-up with his announcement that ICANN should do more for the community and for ITS community, we will see an improvement next year. The current sum of applicant fees in ICANN accounts is one thing. The proceeds from any auction will be another thing and we have to campaign hard that the primary benefactors of this windfall be the community because it is the community that builds and sustains the multi-stakeholder model that ICANN is built from and that, indeed the Internet is built from. No community = no multi-stakeholder model = no Internet (as we know it). Kind regards, Olivier
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