[Ncsg-discuss] Questions for meeting with CEO

[farzaneh badii]

Thanks Judith

I am not really happy that they touch the grant funds. That was supposed to
go to research …

Farzaneh


On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 1:11 PM Judith Hellerstein <judith at jhellerstein.com>
wrote:

> Hi Farzi
> It is my understanding that the money is coming from auction proceeds and
> not from the icann reserve funds.
>
>  I agree we shouldn’t take money from the reserve funds. As I was told
> when I asked Xavier the money was taken from auction proceeds because they
> cannot use other funds to pay for the next round. At Large is planning to
> ask whether they will be putting the money back if there are extra funds ir
> if these funds are not used
>
> Judith
> Sent from my iPhone
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>
> On Apr 14, 2026, at 12:40 AM, farzaneh badii <
> 00001deb507b73c5-dmarc-request at listserv.syr.edu> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Hi Rafik
>
> We didn’t get to provide input on this, I was hoping we could just bring
> it up with the CEO to tell the Board:
>
> https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-board-seeks-input-on-additional-funds-for-2026-round-applicant-support-program-06-04-2026-en
>
> Basically providing additional fund is something we support for new gtld
> application but ICANN reserve funds is not the pot of money to touch for
> operational matters. How did they come up with that decision? How can we
> prevent them from tapping  into the reserve funds which is not for
> operational matters in the future. And it’s not little money and there is
> no plan to put it back from other sources at later stage.
>
> Best regards
>
> Farzaneh
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 2:04 AM Rafik Dammak <
> 00001e06d4af460b-dmarc-request at listserv.syr.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> hi all,
>>
>> The meeting with the CEO was rescheduled to next week. Please share your
>> questions/topics you want us to bring to the call.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Rafik
>>
>> Le sam. 4 avr. 2026 à 06:39, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Juan, Wisdom and I will have in coming days call with ICANN CEO. We are
>>> asking for topics  and questions we should bring to the call. Please let us
>>> know. We should prepare by 10th April.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Rafik
>>>
>>
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