[council] Proposed Comment on FY17 Budget and Operating Plan
Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G.
crg at isoc-cr.org
Thu Apr 21 18:27:07 UTC 2016
Thank you Berry!
my comments and questions on version 0.3 as per attachment
Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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On 14 Apr 2016, at 17:20, Berry Cobb wrote:
> All,
>
> Just as a reminder, Ed & Staff will finalize the list of Clarifying
> Questions appended to this draft public comment to Finance by 23:00
> UTC 15
> April. Should you or the group you represent have any more to add,
> please
> send them our way so that we can add them to the list.
>
> As noted by Marika below, there will also be upcoming webinars
> scheduled by
> Finance for each SO/AC to further explain the draft FY17 Budget and
> ask for
> any additional questions. We expect those announcement to be out
> early next
> week.
>
> Thank you.
>
> B
>
> Berry A. Cobb
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers
> 720.839.5735
> mail at berrycobb.com
> @berrycobb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org
> [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On
> Behalf Of Marika Konings
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 07:51
> To: Mary Wong; Amr Elsadr; GNSO Council List
> Cc: Edward Morris
> Subject: Re: [council] Proposed Comment on FY17 Budget and Operating
> Plan
>
> To add to Mary¹s response, the objective of the discussion is also to
> identify any additional questions that may exist in relation to the
> budget
> documents. The Finance Team has indicated that they are open to
> receiving
> any clarifying questions which they will attempt to answer prior to
> the
> closing of the public comment period so that these can be considered
> as
> part of the development of input for the public comment forum. On the
> last
> page of the draft you will already find a number of questions that
> were
> identified by members of the small team. If there are additional
> questions, you are encouraged to provide these so that these can get
> added. The hope is that the responses to the questions as well as
> feedback
> received on the current draft will allow for finalisation of the
> comment
> via the mailing list and submission in time for the 30 April deadline.
> Please note that the Finance Team is also in the process of scheduling
> calls with the different communities that have and/or will submit
> comments
> following the close of the public comment forum to 'enhance the
> understanding of the comments and so improve the quality of the
> response'
> (see https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-04-12-en).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marika
>
> On 14/04/16 08:35, "owner-council at gnso.icann.org on behalf of Mary
> Wong"
> <owner-council at gnso.icann.org on behalf of mary.wong at icann.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello Amr and everyone,
>>
>> There is no motion to be voted on with respect to this topic. This
>> was
>> also the case last year, when the Council also submitted a comment on
>> the
>> FY16 Budget. The idea here is that the Council will discuss the draft
>> that was prepared by the small team at this call, with a view toward
>> finalizing any comments and changes via the email list subsequently
>> but
>> in good enough time to submit the final comment by the 30 April
>> deadline.
>>
>> FYI, while the GNSO Council will need a motion on any matter for
>> which it
>> is required to vote (e.g. PDP-related topics), the Council does have
>> the
>> ability to take action without a motion or voting on other matters.
>> As
>> you may recall, this has been done a number of times with respect to
>> non-PDP and such topics for which is vote is not specifically
>> required.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> Thanks and cheers
>> Mary
>>
>> Mary Wong
>> Senior Policy Director
>> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>> Email: mary.wong at icann.org
>> Telephone: +1-603-5744889
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/14/16, 05:44, "owner-council at gnso.icann.org on behalf of Amr
>> Elsadr"
>> <owner-council at gnso.icann.org on behalf of aelsadr at egyptig.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Ed, James, Carlos and KeithŠ, thank you very much for this. I
>>> can¹t
>>> imagine that getting this done was particularly easy.
>>>
>>> I was wondering how we would be handling this on tonight¹s Council
>>> call.
>>> It is listed as an agenda item for Council approval on on the
>>> Council
>>> meeting agenda
>>> (https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Agenda+14+April+
>>> 2016), but not listed as a motion to be voted on
>>> (https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+14+April
>>> +2016). So I¹m not entirely clear on what the outcome of this
>>> agenda
>>> item is meant to be. Any insight would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Amr
>>>
>>>> On Apr 13, 2016, at 10:19 PM, Edward Morris <egmorris1 at toast.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My Fellow Councillors,
>>>>
>>>> You will recall at our ICANN55 Council meeting, a small team
>>>> (James,
>>>> Carlos, Keith, myself) volunteered to formulate draft comments
>>>> relating
>>>> to ICANN's proposed Draft FY17 operating plan and budget. Attached
>>>> you
>>>> will find a starter draft of comments for the Council to consider.
>>>> Track changes are enabled should any member of the Council wish to
>>>> suggest edits. Please feel to do so and then send them back over
>>>> the
>>>> list. This small team with assistance from staff will maintain a
>>>> master
>>>> copy to ready for submission.
>>>>
>>>> The Public Comments are due by 30 April 2016, and thus we have just
>>>> over two weeks to make edits and then determine if the Council
>>>> wishes
>>>> to submit them. This topic is currently on the GNSO Council agenda
>>>> for
>>>> tomorrow. The small team also recognizes that likely all SGs & Cs
>>>> will
>>>> be submitting their own comments. In that regard and because we
>>>> are
>>>> managers of the policy process, this draft of comments attempted to
>>>> only focus at a higher level of how the proposed budget impacts the
>>>> GNSO and its policy development activities.
>>>>
>>>> This process for submitting comments mimics what occurred last year
>>>> for the FY16 draft budget. Once that draft was completed over the
>>>> Council list, the comments were submitted without objection. As we
>>>> will likely discuss tomorrow and based on this current experience,
>>>> the
>>>> Council should consider formalizing this process especially in the
>>>> light of a future empowered community.
>>>>
>>>> In addition to thanking James, Carlos and Keith with whom it has
>>>> been
>>>> a pleasure to work with, special thanks go out from all of us to
>>>> Berry
>>>> and Marika for their exceptional input and dedicated effort on this
>>>> comment. We are extraordinarily lucky to have such fine staff
>>>> assigned
>>>> to help us on Council.
>>>>
>>>> We looks forward to everyone's input.
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ed Morris
>>>> <Budget Comment.docx>
>>>
>>>
>>
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