<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi from the peanut gallery</div>
<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 24, 2016, at 16:56, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" class="">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">We have five slots for 2016; one has </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">already</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> been allocated to an NCUC member to attend CPDP<a href="http://www.cpdpconferences.org/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.cpdpconferences.org/</a> in Brussels. </span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">At the moment we have four opportunities for funding to attend conferences/events and do NCUC outreach. </span></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Just to be clear, you are establishing new rules and requirements for the four remaining applicants after having allocated one subject to no such rules and requirements? And among these are that preference shall be given to regions that have not been allocated CROPP so far, when you’ve already allocated one to precisely such a region?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I guess having failed to be a first mover I’m out of luck, and I might as well withdraw my request for CROPP support for the EuroDIG?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BTW the Travel Policy says that applications for support will be invited at least two months prior to an ICANN meeting. Marrakech is in six weeks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>