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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">I agree with Norbert that NCUC should support Philip's email regarding the un-necessary rigidity of the travel policy proposed by ICANN staff and the need to press staff to respond to the GNSO. </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">ICANN staff dictating policy to the GNSO exemplifies the "bottom-up" approach to policy-making ICANN's PR office issues so many press releases about....</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Robin</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">---------- Forwarded Message ----------</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Subject: [council] Community Travel support Procedure for Mexico City</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Date: Friday, 9 January 2009</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">From: "Philip Sheppard" <<a href="mailto:philip.sheppard@aim.be">philip.sheppard@aim.be</a>></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">To: <a href="mailto:denise.michel@icann.org">denise.michel@icann.org</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Denise,</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">further to our Council discussion yesterday could you please elicit a response to resolution</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">2 of the Council motion on travel support passed at our December 18 meeting?</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">This is Council's response re Mexico City and the deadlines you referenced.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Many thanks.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Philip</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">-------------------</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Whereas:</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Council welcomes the fact that ICANN have allocated some funds for GNSO travel.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">1. Council regrets that the current proposal imposes administrative difficulty and may thus reduce the total budget available.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">2. Council calls upon ICANN staff to nominate by 15 January 2009 a fixed sum for fiscal year 2009 that will be granted to each of the constituencies currently recognized under the ICANN by-laws of 29 May 2008. Such sum should exclude any budget to cover the costs of nom com delegates or GNSO chair travel.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">3. Council requests Constituencies to publish the names of all those who receive travel support together with a list of the relevant meeting(s) for which the support was given and which were attended by the support recipient.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"><b>The motion unanimously passed by voice vote</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><br></p><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>