RE: [registrars] Motion on Travel Funding

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ross,

I am not comfortable with a blanket rejection.

Personally I found the support ICANN gave to have some face-to-face
meetings separate from the normal physical ICANN meetings to discuss
some of the details of the new gTLD policy to be very useful.   They
were typical 2.5 days of fairly intense work, which is not easy to
duplicate via online mechanisms.   These were important to build some
level of teamwork to attempt to reach consensus rather than the usual
adversarial approach that is prevalent within the GNSO.   Of course such
funding should only be for policy activities that are deemed
strategically important to ICANN and in the strategic plan - rather than
more reactive policy work (e.g add-grace period adjustments), or
refinements to existing policy (e.g transfers).

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin