<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Oct 2018, at 10:53 am, Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix <<a href="mailto:rbeauregardlacroix@gmail.com" class="">rbeauregardlacroix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">The only certainty I have in the current case is that out of fairness, it should not be possible to pile up travel grants by virtue of holding multiple positions. Again, I do not know whether this has occurred or is occuring in our present case. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And what I understand here as "piling up" is not having several opportunities to obtain travel funds for one given meeting, but actually obtaining more than "one" allocation of travel funds through the multiple hats or getting travel funds more often than others just by virtue of holding several positions. I do not know what coordinating mechanisms there are between NCSG/NPOC/NCUC as far as travel grants are concerned, and whether there are rules as to "who pays" (or who <i class="">should </i>pay) for people with multiple hats, but that is also something that could and should be discussed. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Travel funding is a complex issue, but I do not believe that acquiring multiple travel funding without re-allocation is likely to happen within our current SG system. There are some slight wrinkles here and there (such as using funds from one sources to top up travel support from another, as has happened for various reasons when ICANN funding does not cover a full meeting or meeting associated events), but I certainly do not anticipate that the amount of travel resources available overall will be in any way reduced. </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>There are also, of course, funding for various special purpose roles within ICANN (such as WGs, mentoring, etc), but they each have separate rules.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>David</div></body></html>