[NCUC-DISCUSS] David and his many positions at NCUC/NCSG/NPOC

[Olévié Kouami]

Greetings all !
+1 @Dorothy.


Le mer. 10 oct. 2018 06:54, dorothy g <dgdorothydg at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Dear Friends,  These exchanges are not helping to build our community.
> Also certain language and accusations have been made by some parties that
> are not helpful. Please stop and let us get on with the main tasks. If
> there are serious procedural concerns we should be clear on what exactly
> needs to be changed and why without personalising the situation. I believe
> our two communities work together and we should not squabble over travel
> support.This is petty. Let us appreciate that different members of the
> community contribute in different ways. Someone was elected. If the rules
> made them ineligible that should have been sorted out before the election.
> Let us move on.
> Farzaneh, Thanks for objecting to those 'gender-biased' adjectives. Women
> should not be bullied into silence. As I have said earlier we will miss
> you. We may not always agree but I have always found you to be professional
> in your approach.
> David let me say that most of us are looking forward to you making stellar
> contributions during your term.  This remains the best way to silence
> detractors.
>
> best regards
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 6:37 AM David Cake <dave at davecake.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 10 Oct 2018, at 10:53 am, Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix <
>> rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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 *should *pay) for
>> people with multiple hats, but that is also something that could and should
>> be discussed.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>> There are also, of course, funding for various special purpose roles
>> within ICANN (such as WGs, mentoring, etc), but they each have separate
>> rules.
>>
>> David
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