Re: [council] BC Travel support Cairo

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I thank you and acknowledge the protest.

a.

On 25 Aug 2008, at 04:33, Philip Sheppard wrote:

> The BC formally protests the present ICANN travel policy as  
> inadequate for the needs of the GNSO.
> The notification below of our needs for Cairo in the format  
> requested by the ICANN chair for pragmatic interim purposes should  
> not be construed in any way as support tacit or otherwise.
> -----------------------------
> The BC needs for travel support for Cairo are:
> 1. Mike Rodenbaugh.
>
> 2. Zahid Jamil who writes:
> "I will be unable to attend Cairo without support for air fare and  
> hotel since the organisation I represent is a very small entity,  
> without any available funding."
> 3. Philip Sheppard who writes:
> "I request travel support in my representative capacity on behalf of  
> commercial users who are affected by ICANN policies. While my  
> association is willing to donate my time it is profoundly  
> unreasonable to expect it to also fund out of pocket travel costs  
> for work that is fundamental to ICANN when ICANN's budget is in  
> excess of USD 60 million".