<div dir="ltr">Dear Bill and the EC,<div><br></div><div>Many thanks for this, and I'm glad to receive funding for my participation at ICANN54. Dublin is an important venue for accountability discussions and the starting point for our continued dialogue of Bylaws revision. I appreciate the EC's decision especially since I was a previous recipient.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Arun </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:03 PM, William Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" target="_blank">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Arun<div><br></div><div>The NCUC EC has approved your application for support in accordance with the terms of the the travel support policy <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/participate/ncuc-travel-support/" target="_blank">http://www.ncuc.org/participate/ncuc-travel-support/</a>, e.g. up to US $2,000 toward conference-related airfare, visas or related fees, lodging, and airport taxis. Save your receipts and submit to Milton for reimbursement post hoc.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to your participation in the accountability process etc, your coordination of the bylaws update effort in advance of the Constituency Day discussion will be very helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Bill </div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 24, 2015, at 8:57 AM, Arun Mohan Sukumar <<a href="mailto:arunmohan.s@gmail.com" target="_blank">arunmohan.s@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Dear Bill and Milton,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I would like to apply for NCUC travel support to the ICANN 54 meet in Dublin. I was previously a recipient of NCUC support to attend the Buenos Aires meeting but I would like to appeal to the NCUC EC to consider the exceptional circumstances requiring my attendance in two consecutive meetings. I am an active participant and volunteer in the CCWG-Accountability, which will discuss its revised proposal in Dublin after a second round of public comments. As a volunteer, I've no access to travel support from ICANN but I've made efforts to attend all CCWG sessions till now, including at ICANN 52, 53 and the 1st F2F in Istanbul (could not attend the Paris meeting owing to lack of funding). Since the revised proposal was published, my efforts have been directed at generating a discussion in India and the South Asian region on the document. Pursuant to this, I will be leading a briefing session on ICANN Accountability on September 3 in New Delhi. Given the significance of the Dublin meet to the IANA transition and accountability in general, I would like to submit my application for travel support. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">In addition, I have also volunteered to coordinate the revision of NCUC bylaws to bring it in line with the NCSG charter -- as well as to scope out the possibility of a larger exercise to update bylaws to reflect the constituency's dynamic character. This ongoing exercise may not culminate in Dublin, but ICANN 54 will provide a valuable platform to gauge the pulse of the community on bylaws changes. I will be briefing the Bylaws team and NCUC on potential changes. This is a volunteer assignment, and I am hopeful that my skills as a lawyer will be useful to the NCUC to help coordinate the long overdue revision. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">1. Voted in the previous year’s NCUC election, if eligible at the time;</span><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Was not eligible.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br>2. Are actively and verifiably engaged in NCUC’s work, for example constituency governance, NCUC/NCSG policy discussions, or GNSO or cross-community working groups;</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Active participant and contributor to the Cross-Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability. Contributions to CCWG mailing lists, ICANN 53 meet in Buenos Aires and at March F2F meeting in Istanbul can be verified. I'm also part of an ongoing effort to help revise NCUC bylaws in line with with the NCSG charter and to reflect the holistic, contemporary nature of this constituency.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">References: Mathieu Weill (co-chair of CCWG-Accountability), Edward Morris </div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br>3. Need to be at a given meeting because the above mentioned work will be advanced there;</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The CCWG-Accountability will be meeting at ICANN 54.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br>4. Agree to participate in any NCUC, NCSG and GNSO meetings held during the meeting;</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Agree </div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br>5. Agree to write a brief post-trip blog post for the NCUC website reflecting on the meeting’s main developments of relevance to NCUC;</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Agree - my blog post for the ICANN 53 meeting can be found here <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Blogpost-Arun.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ncuc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Blogpost-Arun.pdf</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br>6. Did not receive NCUC funding to attend the immediately previous ICANN meeting, unless exceptional circumstances require their presence at two consecutive meetings. (Note: this criteria only applies to regular ICANN meetings, as below)</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Received NCUC support for ICANN 53, but appeal to the EC on the basis of exceptional circumstances listed above.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br>7. Agree to make their own <span>travel</span>, accommodation, visa, and related arrangements and be reimbursed after the trip. NCUC cannot provide funds in advance of meetings or any administrative <span>support</span>.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Agree.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Head, Cyber Initiative<div>Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi</div><div><a href="http://amsukumar.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">http://amsukumar.tumblr.com</a></div><div><a href="tel:%2B91-9871943272" value="+919871943272" target="_blank">+91-9871943272</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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