<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">I am opening an acocunt at the Royal Bank of Canada, and until we have any money, I think
we are good to go.<br></font></font></p></div></blockquote><div>Surely that's not easier than using the account that Sam and Joan have already set up in Canada? This was my suggestion after realising that new arrangements will probably not be on time for the PIR to send NCSG money. Aren't you supposed to ask the EC's blessing for opening an NCSG account?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">
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<p><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";font-size:large">if we manage to have a discussion at policy committee or Finance Committee on the matter, I hope you will join us.</span></p></div></blockquote><div>Why would the policy committee decide about creating a registered nonprofit organisation for NCSG? Even the finance committee is not authorised to act on this without the decision being made at NCSG EC. I think both decisions (account and org) belong to the NCSG EC.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><p><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";font-size:large">Raoul, you can do what you like in terms of talking to ICANN staff, legal or otherwise, in terms of NPOC, but I am going to assert my authority as Chair in the matter of NCSG and its identity. </span></p></div></blockquote><div>With all due respect, I do not need even your permission to make inquiries in MY PERSONAL CAPACITY, like I said. That is to say, I could very well ask ICANN staff, what the rules are about certain aspects of our organisation. I also don't understand why you need to reiterate this point, when I have already said that I will pursue this information for NPOC.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><p><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";font-size:large">Meanwhile, you already have three NPOC bank accounts....what do Joan and Sam think about this? And Milton, who has patiently acted as Treasurer for NCUC without mishap for lo these many years? These are folks
who need to be in on the discussion, the folks who have been managing the money.</span></p></div></blockquote><div>NPOC has an account in Canada that it has never used. The money we received from Rudi is on my personal account. There are no other accounts. </div><div><br></div><div>I have not at any point tried to undermine, how Milton has ran the account. I'm confident he's done it well. However, it should be administered by other people too and those people should be able to be changed through other means than visiting USA. </div><div><br></div><div>The NPOC excom is of course aware of me trying to fix this situation in a sustainable way and I presume Sam has also seen these emails.</div><div><br></div><div>-Raoul</div><div><br></div></div></div>