Re: [ga] ICANN Travel Budgeting

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Kirikos wrote:

> I predict it would cost substantially LESS than $1000 per person for a
> week of live feeds using Webex or other systems. And folks could
> participate from the comfort of their home/office, and sleep in their
> own bed at night. Their carbon footprint would also be much less.
>  
Yes but where is the fun, the travel, etc. etc.  These are working paid 
vacations.
> I assume the number of ICANN staffers being sent far exceeds 21, so you
> can just imagine the enormous wasteful spending, on the backs of domain
> registrants. More bread, less circuses.
>  
That is what I have called ICANN for years.  A circuse.

> When something is "free" it tends to get abused, be it the Add Grace
> Period, or travel funding. More efficient allocations of resources
> occur when one is given the choice of how to allocate those "free"
> funds.
>  
That may be too logical and argument for ICANN to comprehend.

Cheers
Joe Baptista

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