Good news! The fact we will have support for Kathy's work greatly 
improves the odds in favor of a good whois+privacy meeting in S.Paulo.

Kathy is to propose an agenda and suggest keynote speakers, on the basis 
of our discussions on this in Marrakesh.

frt rgds

--c.a.

Milton Mueller wrote:
> As authorized by the NCUC Executive committee, I paid out of our account
> the following to support travel to the Marrakech meeting:
> 
> $2200 to Mawaki Chango to cover air and hotel
> $1500 to Kathy Kleiman to cover airfare
> $ 390 to Milton Mueller to cover hotel
> $ 145 to Norbert Klein to cover bus expenses in getting to airports
> 
> The last item needs to be internationally wired to Klein's account. To
> do that, I have to transfer NCUC money to my own personal account and
> then do an international transfer. This is because our (free) NCUC bank
> account is not at an international bank. The final amount is not clear,
> I will see what nasty fees the banks charge us, but I sent 110 Euros to
> Norbert's account even though he only asked for 100 because we need to
> cover his bank charges, and I will also get hit with bank charges (US$15
> or so) which will need to be covered. 
> 
> Now the good news....
> 
> PIR at Marrakech gave us the $14,000 installment for the last year of
> their agreed contribution. Thanks to Ed Viltz in particular for this.
> 
> Also, Afilias has pledged to give the constituency $15,000 and has
> specified that some amount of that should be dedicated to suppot Kathy
> Kleiman's Whois work. For those of you who are not fully aware of it,
> Kathy's mobilization of privacy advocates and data protection
> authorities played a big role in fending off the US/GAC onslaught. 
> 
> Additionally, the constituency chairs and former chairs met
> informally.Efforts are underway to get the GNSO to support travel for
> Councillors to ICANN meetings. That would really ease the load on our
> financial resources. 
> 
> 

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Carlos A. Afonso
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