Re: [atlarge-discuss] The cost of participation

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

Danny and all stakeholders or other interested parties,

DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> Bruce,
>
> Try not to get so quickly excited about liaison positions until you consider
> the practical implications.  In order to be an organizational liaison to the
> GAC, for example, you have to be able to commit to attending three to four
> meetings per year, all over the planet, and at an average cost of $2500 per
> meeting for travel and accommodation costs.  I know.  I've had to do it, and
> mostly out of my own pocket.

  Most of what you are advising Bruce and everyone else on here regarding
Liaison's to various parts of the ICANN ever increasing buarcracy.
However the ICANNATLARGE.COM as a whole should provide
for all of these costs for each of their liaisons as we at INEGroup
do and many other similar organizations do as well to include
ICANN.  With 900+ members, acquiring these funds should be a
relatively trivial and simple task.

>
>
> If other folks will be liaisons to the SOs or constituencies, then they too
> will have to commit personal financial resources to the effort.  You can't be
> a liaison by proxy or in a virtual environment... it requires interacting
> face-to-face with people in order to lobby on behalf of your organization.

  Quite right here for the most part as well.  SOme of this however can
be done by deploying various forms of technology.  None the less
going to these meetings around the globe will require also a sometimes
inconvenient time away from your regular job as well not to mention
Family.

>
>
> It's great building castles in the sky, but take a moment once in a while to
> be realistic.  Organizations like Markle are no longer even providing funding
> for members of the NCDNHC.  Most members on this list have never even been to
> a single ICANN meeting, let alone three or four consecutive meetings.

  Good point.  However most of the ICANN meetings have remote
participation access.  PSO and ASO as well as APNIC meetings
do not unfortunately.

>
>
> Are you willing to commit $10,000 out of your own pocket this year to be a
> liaison?  Probably not.

  $10,000.00 for this sort of thing is a paltry sum really.  The members
should be able to come up with many more times this amount if they
are willing to dedicate themselves some of their time to aid in generating
the funding...

>  Will icannatlarge.com ever have $30,000 to $40,000
> in discretionary funds so that it can afford to send 4 representatives as
> liaisons to the ccSO, the GNSO, the GAC, the ALAC?  Probably not for a long,
> long while.

  Well I hope you are not correct in this prediction...  If you are, than
ICANNATLARGE.COM will not be very effective or useful.

>
>
> Good ideas are only good if they can be implemented.  Right now you and the
> rest of the membership will need to rely on the elected representatives to
> somehow attend all these meetings.  How many such meetings will you attend
> per year?  Do you expect to be in Shanghai?  How many of the candidates now
> running for office can commit to this level of participation financially?  It
> would be nice to know...

  Good questions here.

>
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