RE: [ga] ICANN reimburse $75,000 to GAC for GAC Secretariat

["Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>]

I must disagree, respectively, with any view that this is a bail-out.
We are all engaged in trying to achieve an effective next stage to ICANN.
I am a firm believer that the private sector should do what ICANN is doing.
Governments should be, and are, key advisors. The GAC is a critical resource
in this aspect. Support of the secretariat for the GAC makes sense.  We are all
in transition. 

Let's look forward to the future and the common vision which I believe most share -
we can be bogged down in past experiences. OR we can understand that evolution means
just that.

It is hard to put one's personal experiences and to look to a broader more common
perspective... but that is necessary.  In the future, I believe we have agreement to support
of staff for SOs ... I have supported that extension to Advisory Councils, but noted that 
I believe that AC's must advise SO's, where policy is made, not just Board.

:-)

Marilyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Auerbach [mailto:karl@CaveBear.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 7:33 PM
To: Elisabeth Porteneuve
Cc: ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] ICANN reimbourse $75,000 to GAC for GAC Secretariat


On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote:

> ICANN reimbourse $75,000 to GAC for 4 month and half
> of GAC Secretariat (after Bucharest to 15 November 2002):
 
> Deux poids deux mesures ?

> While the DNSO Constituencies provide 90% of the whole ICANN...

While I may have certain complaints and concerns about the DNSO, the
effectiveness of its administrative functions is not among them.  I have
been impressed with the ever-improving mechanisms that the DNSO has put
into place: e-mail archives, audio recordings of meetings, etc.

(Had I had the opportunity to do so, I would not have voted for this
bail-out of the GAC.)

		--karl--




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