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

[Dan Steinberg <synthesis@videotron.ca>]

Marilyn,

With respect, I must disagree.

The GAC may be critical...or not..but that is not the issue I believe.
The issue of funding always revolves around who needs it most...and who
can find other sources.
If anyone can get funding or re-imbursment...it is the GAC. They
represent governments. If governments anre not serious about this
participation...then...they vote with their checkbooks.  It is a very
simple way of speaking volumes.  governments have multiple souorces of
revenue and choices to make: what to spend the money on. Funding GAC
activities...is not even a drop in the bucket for the ones that have
come to the table.

The organizations we are talking about ...like DNSO...cannot raise
taxes...or sell souvenir t-shirts...to fund their activities.

Whie I am all for looking to the future, that should not prevent us from
being very attentive to what is going on now.



"Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" wrote:
> 
> 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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