From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philip Sheppard
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 12:22 PM
To: 'GNSO Council'
Subject: RE: [council] Comments in relation with GNSO travel funding and policyChuck,it was these proposed edits by you that sent a shudder down my spine.I must go and recuperate immediately ...TGIF.Philip--------------------------It could be good if constituencies receive the travel funds and they distribute these funds among their members with flexibility.[Gomes, Chuck] Looking forward, I think we should change 'constituencies' to 'stakeholder groups'.
The budgeted amount for GNSO should be monetized and divided equally between Constituencies (possibly SGs if there is a proliferation of Constituencies).[Gomes, Chuck] The way this is worded, it result in a stakeholder group with lots of constituencies getting most of the funds while those with few constituencies receiving few funds. In other words, it would be possible for a bunch of small constituencies to receive more travel funding than a large constituency that may represent many more stakeholders than the group of small constituencies. I suspect that that was not the intent, so I suggest changing 'Constituencies' to 'stakeholder groups'.
Constituency allocation should be transparent but at the discretion of the Constituency.[Gomes, Chuck] I would change 'Constituency' in both cases to 'stakeholder group'.