Re: [ga] ICANN reimburse $75,000 to GAC for GAC secretariat

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Richard and all assembly members, stakeholders or other interested parties,

  Thank you Richard for passing this bit of info along.  Much appreciated!

  However after reading it several times I came to have a few questions..

 1. ) Why would the Australian Government cease to fund these
positions/functions than reverse it's decision on the secretariat
later, and than only temporarily?

2.) Will or has, sense March, the ITU's offer to fund either of these
     positions/fuctions?  If not, why not?  If so, what was, if any
     the decision?

3.) Shouldn't these two positions/functions be volunteers?  Were
     any volunteers ask for to fill these postions/functions?


richard.hill@itu.int wrote:

> A number of questions have been asked and comments made regarding the ICANN
> Board's recent decision to fund partly, for a limited period of time, the
> GAC secretariat and chair functions, see
>
> http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-13aug02.htm
>
> The following information, which is based on what I know, may answer some of
> the questions that have been raised.
>
> At the Accra meeting 11-12 March 2002, the Chair of GAC, Paul Twoomey,
> stated:
>
> "... the Chair advised that he will be resigning effective from the end of
> the Shanghai meeting and the Australian Government will cease providing the
> Secretariat function at the end of the Bucharest meeting."
>
> The issue of replacing the GAC Secretariat was discussed at the 9-10 April
> GAC meeting in Bruxelles and the 3-4 June GAC meeting in Canberra.
>
> At both those meetings, some GAC members, and in particular ITU, offered to
> provide some secretariat services as in-kind support for GAC.  Specifically,
> ITU offered to provide the basic secretariat support for meetings, at no
> cost to ICANN or to GAC (since the costs are already covered by ITU's
> participation).
>
> These offers were noted but not discussed.  It was noted that a global
> discussion of the nature and role of the GAC secretariat should take place
> in the context of ICANN reform.
>
> The GAC meeting in Bucharest was essentially focussed on preparing comments
> on the recently-published Blueprint for Reform.  At the very end of the
> meeting, at 3am, Paul Twoomey announced that Australia had reversed its
> previous decision to stop funding the Chair and the Secretariat and was
> willing to fund both the Chair and the Secretariat for an interim period.
> As a consequence, the Chair announced that Australia would continue to
> provide the Secretariat.
>
> I am informed that subsequently the Australian government informed ICANN
> that it would be willing to perform the role of GAC Secretariat, but
> indicated that it would no longer fund that role.  I am informed that the
> Australian government subsequently raised with ICANN the issue of finding
> alternative sources of funding.
>
> As noted in previous E-Mails, the Board made a decision to provide up to
> $75'000 dollars to the Australian goverment, to cover actual costs of chair
> and secretariat services for a limited period of time.
>
> I am informed that a draft budget for this funding, for the period 1 July to
> 15 November, is being prepared by the GAC Secretariat and will be circulated
> to the GAC membership.
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Richard Hill
> Counsellor, ITU-T SG2
> International Telecommunication Union
> Place des Nations
> CH-1211 Geneva 20
> Switzerland
> tel: +41 22 730 5887
> FAX: +41 22 730 5853
> Email: richard.hill@itu.int
> Study Group 2 email: tsbsg2@itu.int
>
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