[council] RyC GNSO Travel Funds Position

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The RyC approved the following position regarding travel funding for
Sydney today.

 

Travel Funding for Sydney - RyC Position 1 Apr 09

 

At this time the RyC requests full travel funding for one person to
attend and participate in the ICANN Sydney meetings in June 2009.  For
the funding associated with the remaining three slots allocated to the
RyC for the current fiscal year, the RyC recommends any FY09 travel
funds allocated to the RyC left over at the end of June be rolled over
to FY10 for use by the RyC for future travel needs for GNSO activities.

 

Regarding the use of DNSO funds still remaining on ICANN books, the RyC
believes that a good use of those funds for the benefit of the whole
community in the long term would be to use them for improving the
capacity for remote participation in an effective manner and thereby
minimizes the heavy dependence on in-person participation.  We believe
that this would scale much better and be a much more fiscally
responsible approach over the longer term than continuing to try to
subsidize travel expenses for what likely will be a growing need of GNSO
participants in the future.
 
Chuck