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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Below (and attached) is the comment of ICANN’s Business Constituency (BC), regarding First Consultation on a 2-Year Planning Process<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The BC thanks ICANN Org for the proposal on a 2-year process as a mechanism to create more time to plan ICANN activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Noting that the current time-frame for the planning process is 15 month, the BC believes this is adequate to address ICANN fiscal activities in tandem with the approved strategic plan.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">However, the BC would like to submit the following questions and responses to questions poised.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Question : </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Is there any precedence for this type of budgeting plan over a 2-year cycle?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A budgeting plan for a 5-year Operations/Strategic plan with annual incremental/decremental budget provision do exist but a 2-yearly revolving activities planning may be duplicative
and engender an excessive oversight into the staff responsibility domain and may not be the best use of precious community time.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Responses to Questions posed to the Community<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Question 1 - Does the community agree that the yearly planning cycle does not provide sufficient time for community extensive input and interaction on the operating plan and budget?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">No. The yearly planning cycle provides sufficient time.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Question 2 - Does the community believe that more time for planning provides more transparency?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Yes but the current time is quite sufficient.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For the following questions, the answers are embedded in bold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Question 3 – How and who should set ICANN’s priorities?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:11.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The current ICANN strategic plan does not prioritize the 5 strategic objectives, they are equally important.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-17.95pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Should parts of the strategic plan be prioritized of the 5 years it applies to?
<b>Yes</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:21.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-17.95pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">From the strategic trends exercises conducted with several community organizations during 2018:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">o
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“there is no prioritization, everything is #1 and nothing is #1”.
<b>There is need for prioritization.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">o
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“are the community priorities aligned with ICANN mission/vision?”
<b>Yes</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:7.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">o </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“Focus on technical functions as a priority and avoid allowing budget constraints</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">to negatively affect them” <b>Yes.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Question 4 – Should policy development and implementation activities be integral to the planning cycle?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:10.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For the purpose of better using the limited availability of the community stakeholders, already stretched, and to appropriately allocate ICANN’s support resources, policy development
needs and activities could be considered during the planning process:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-17.95pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Should the policy development activities be planned?
<b>Yes</b>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-17.95pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">What should be planned collectively by the SO/AC?
<b>Based on exploration and need.</b></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-17.95pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">What should be planned by the GNSO and ccNSO?
<b>Policy Development works, Reviews, Research.</b></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Question 5 - What activities, other than policy development, should be planned and by whom?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Examples:
<b>Reviews - SO/AC with support from ICANN org.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:31.0pt"><a name="page4"></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Question 6 - Should the planning process include a formalized dedicated phase to plan for SO/AC activities? If so, how many years should be planned for? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:31.0pt;text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Yes, 5 years in sync with the 5-year Strategic Plan.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Process questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:1.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.95pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Would it be beneficial to insert, in the early part of the planning process, a phase of activity planning resulting in a document submitted for a first public comment period, and follow it by an
operating plan and budget development phase which would be the subject of a second public comment period?
<b>Yes</b>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-17.95pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">What are the barriers to community engagement in the planning process?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lack of available time?
<b>Yes, as most community members are volunteers.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Complexity of the information produced?
<b>No.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:15.3pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Complexity or length of the planning process?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
<b>No.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:15.3pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:15.3pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lack of relevance or interest? <b>No.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">This comment was drafted by Jimson Olufuye, with input from the BC’s Finance Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It was approved in accord with our charter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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