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Re: [ga] ICANN reimburse $75,000 to GAC for GAC secretariat
I'm sure the DNSO would have been happy to be offered one-time funding.
Was this ever offered?
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Joe Sims wrote:
> The angst over this is interesting, and it shows how some have forgotten
> the basic idea here. The reason for ICANN was to create an organization
> that could avoid the bureaucratic problems of treaty organizations. What
> we have here is a great example of the difference between governmental
> bodies and more flexible bodies. Up to now, Australia has been the
> volunteer funding source for the GAC Chair and Secretariat, and no GAC
> members had to worry about funding other than to travel to meeting. Now
> that source has gone away (Australia reasonably concluding it had carried
> more than its fair share of the load), and the GAC representatives have to
> figure out, for the first time, how to fund the Chair and Secretariat. It
> is hardly surprising that, being governments, this takes some time. Now,
> someone has to come up with a plan (the GAC has created a committee to do
> this), and then the GAC reps go back to their governments, and get whatever
> approval is necessary. This also takes some time. At this stage in the
> ICANN reform process, unfortunately, we don't have any time; we are in the
> middle of the process, and it will end in October. So if there is going to
> be any GAC activity between now and Shanghai, someone has to pay for it.
> Of course governments have the money, but it takes time to go through their
> processes. The ability of ICANN to make a quick decision to deal with an
> immediate issue is a great example of the advantages of a private sector
> body over a governmental body -- or in other words, the justification for a
> body like ICANN.
>
> The difference between the DNSO request and this is that the former was
> intended to be permanent funding, while this is a short-term, one time
> issue. The general issue of funding for ICANN units is part of the reform
> process, and the Blueprint assumes that the ICANN constituent units will be
> staffed through ICANN funding. So these are apples and oranges.
>
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> Joe Sims
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