[NCUC-EC] Request For Durban Accommodation

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:33:54PM +0000, Milton L Mueller (mueller at syr.edu) wrote:

> We do not have a per diem policy. 

> Indeed, all of our reimbursements in the past have been exclusively
> for hotels and travel costs, never for meals, etc. Partly it was a
> transaction cost issue, we didn't want to deal with receipts, partly
> it was low budget, and partly, perhaps mainly, we've been operating
> on the volunteerist concept that people who work for NCUC are indeed
> incurring costs and while we can help with the big ticket items that
> would prevent people from coming, generally it was assumed that one
> eats and moves around whether one is at an ICANN meeting or not.

So in the past our per diem policy has been simply not paying any. :-)

I would in fact be quite happy with that (that's what Effi does, too),
but in the present case it would seem only fair to pay Wilson by
same rules as ICANN pays those it funds directly.
But if we pay for extra hotel days for some I don't see a need
to pay per diem for those days as well.

> A per diem is not a bad idea for people who need it, provided it is
> relatively low. $110/day seems pretty lavish to me.

Yes. ICANN's per diem of $50 is more reasonable.

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Tapani Tarvainen