RE: [registrars] Motion on Travel Funding

["Adrian Kinderis" <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ross,

Just a further thought for your consideration.

We have yet to hear from many members. I feel that your motion, if acted
upon immediately, will only curtail any further discussion on the
matter.

Firing a motion within days (hours?) after my post doesn't really give
me the discussion points I was after. It will certainly give me a view
(after the vote) but I am all for discussion leading up to it too! I
understand and respectful of your passion and viewpoint on this topic.

Would you be prepared to delay voting on your motion until we get
further Constituency feedback and discussion. I am not sure it will
impact the vote and that is not my intention, rather I would like to get
a good grasp of ALL the issues to take back to Council (i.e be prepared
for their arguments if need be).

Regards,


Adrian Kinderis
Managing Director
AusRegistry Group Pty Ltd
Level 8, 10 Queens Road
Melbourne. Victoria Australia. 3004
Ph: +61 3 9866 3710
Fax: +61 3 9866 1970
Email: adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: www.ausregistrygroup.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ross Rader
Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 1:23 AM
To: Ross Rader
Cc: Registrars Constituency
Subject: Re: [registrars] Motion on Travel Funding


In case there are any questions concerning what funding travel for  
GNSO Councillors actually entails, here is an email that Tim Ruiz of  
GoDaddy posted to the GNSO GA List earlier this past week.

> I think Denise was misunderstood, or maybe it wasn't clear. I
> took her note to mean the $205,800 was inclusive of the
> airfare of $147,000. Per Councilor - $7000 Bus. class
> airfare, $400 per day hotel/meals for seven days/nights
> (probably longer than most would actually stay).

Put another way, funding travel for Councilors would have the effect  
of adding at least and additional $750k per year to ICANN's budget.  
100% of this increase will be passed along as an increased "tax" on  
domain registrations.

At a time when ICANN's budget seems to be spirally higher and higher  
at every turn, I would hope that our elected constituency  
representatives would take a position on our behalf that would  
minimize the fees that ICANN must collect from us, not increase them.

 From my perspective, rate increases such as this will have the same  
negative impact that the domain registration rate increases have had.  
We cannot let these types of price increases continue unchecked.

The motion requires two more endorsements before it can be put to a  
vote.

-ross