Re: [ICANN-EU] Tabellenstand Nominierung / Ranks in Nomination

[lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* patrick.mayer@gmx.de wrote:
>> As said in an interview yesterday and at debate today:
>>   - It's very possible that ICANN pays the necessary expenses.
>
>Right for travel expenses for board meetings.

Source? I tried to trace this message back and stopped at Heise without any
citation of a proof. Heise may got the idea from Spiegel online or vice versa.
But I didn't try very hard.

>More meetings on the european level will be necessary for the european
>candidate, I guess.

Definitly. I do travel to congresses or customers regulary. Normally I pay
the travel expenses from my own budget (it usually becomes cleared over the
year by compensation for lectures). If I request all fees I should get
(usually I forgot to reqeust the money in a third to a half of all
congresses), I can pay these expenses easily myself. But I do not like to do
this.

>>   - Otherwise I do expect that national govenments provide money.
>
>Governments are represented in the GAC.

GAC has not direct influence to the directors board.

>Government funding should (at least) be indirect.

I don't think so. They are bureaucratic enough to not enforce political
influence ;-)

>Thererfore, your third idea seems very interesting to me:
[Funding through Fitug]
>Surely. The problem is not wether the european at large director will
>_get_ funding, but by whom and under which conditions. Andy made some nice
>remarks on that.

If you assume, that a candidate will be subject to blackmailing, don't
endorse him. If you assume, that a candidate will be able to refuse that,
you might consider other points.

I do not enforce voting for somebody you refuse.