RE: [council] Travel support needed for Sydney

["Mary Wong" <MWong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Similarly, the NCUC intends to use its remaining slot and would also very much 
appreciate additional funding and support to ensure fuller non-commercial 
participation in Sydney. We therefore also support the use of residual DNSO 
funds.
 
As with the IPC, we also highlighted our difficulty in meeting the 6 April 
deadline while in Mexico. We look forward to further information and 
clarification from ICANN staff about possible flexibility around that date.
 
As such, except for saying NCUC would definitely appreciate additional 
assistance for Sydney, we are not at the moment able to break down the specific 
funding elements as Olga and the DT have requested. We will, of course, try to 
get that information to the DT as soon as possible.

Thanks,
Mary
 
Mary W S Wong
Professor of Law
Franklin Pierce Law Center
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>>> "Rosette, Kristina" <krosette@xxxxxxx> 3/26/2009 3:32 PM >>>
The IPC intends to use the 3.5 travel supported slots, and may wish to have 
additional support to facilitate presentations and discussion on the IRT 
output.  We support the use of residual DNSO funds.
 
As to the type of assistance being requested, the IPC probably will not be able 
to provide that information by 27 March.  We have raised with ICANN staff the 
structural difficulty that the IPC will have in identifying travel support 
recipients by 6 April, namely, that the IPC amended its by-laws to have 
elections 30 days before the new Council is seated, that those elections have 
not occurred yet, and that they will not occur before April 6.  We have not yet 
received a response from ICANN staff as to whether there is any workaround to 
the April 6 deadline given our structural problem.
 
K
 
 
 



From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Olga Cavalli
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:54 PM
To: GNSO Council
Subject: [council] Travel support needed for Sydney

Hi,

The Travel Drafting Team would like to make its recommendations for allocation 
of the GNSO reserved funds as soon as possible. 

To assist us in that task please review the list below regarding ICANN provided 
travel funding left for Sydney. 

Does your constituency request travel assistance beyond that or will not need 
assistance? 

If assistance is needed, please let us know the number of travelers and type of 
assistance being requested (airfare, per diem, or full). 

If assistance is not needed please let us know.

We would like this information as soon as possible, the best would be by end of 
day Friday 27 March.

ICANN provided travel funding left for this fiscal year (in terms of
full support slots):
NCUC - 1
ISPC - 1
RyC - 4
BC - 1
RrC - 2
IPC - 3.5

Regards to all
Olga