<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear John</div><div>I agree with you but what I said was, setting a level for reserve account is outside our mandate.</div><div>Whether or not it is a bad thing or wrong message or otherwise to put money from auction at the top of the predetermined level of reserve account set by ICANN is a matter yet to be dabated and decided upon.</div><div>In your views it is a bad thing and wrong message to the community. I do not share that view until we fully debated that and come to the same conclusions or otherwise.</div><div>Regards</div><div>Kavouss </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 9:00 PM, John R. Levine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com" target="_blank">johnl@iecc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
Alan’s view that CCWG discuss the level of ICANN reserve account is outside<br>
the mandate of CCWG. We may just decide whether or not that account be fed<br>
by using Auction money but decision on the appropriate level of the reserve<br>
account is totally outside or mandate as it is a decision to be made by the<br>
Board and not by this group<br>
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Technically, the board has to approve any disbursement plans we come up with, so it's always a board decision, but I agree that using auction money to top up the reserves is a bad idea for two reasons:<br>
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1. It would send a bad message to the community. ICANN goes through a<br>
complex multi-year process to decide who to give the auction bonus to<br>
and decides the most deserving recipient is (drum roll) ICANN itself!<br>
We've now confirmed every speculation that ICANN is a bunch of corrupt<br>
navel gazers.<br>
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2. It would send an equally bad message about ICANN's financial<br>
management. While the timing of the USG transition was hard to<br>
predict, the fact that it would happen and would cost extra was not.<br>
In general, well run organizations match their revenue and expenses,<br>
including maintaining adequate reserves. If ICANN didn't plan ahead,<br>
invaded the reserves, and can only restore them by a top them up from<br>
this one-time piggy bank, what will happen the next time ICANN doesn't<br>
plan for something?<br>
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Regards,<br>
John Levine, <a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com" target="_blank">johnl@iecc.com</a>, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",<br>
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