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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>[To: council[at]gnso.icann.org; liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>[To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-29may09-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-29may09-en.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN Expense Analysis: by Stakeholder Interest Area<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>29
May 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As one important element of
transparency and accountability, ICANN strives to publish meaningful,
accessible financial and operational information. Through its history, ICANN
has consistently increased its financial reporting. Within the last 24 months,
for example, ICANN developed monthly dashboard reporting on financial data.
Earlier this year, the dashboard started to provide financial information by primary
functions. See <a href="http://forms.icann.org/idashboard/public/">http://forms.icann.org/idashboard/public/</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In response to community
requests to view ICANN’s expenses in reports more aligned with stakeholder
interest areas, ICANN has developed a new financial report: Expense Area Group
(EAG) reporting. The categories depicted in this view of ICANN’s budget are
based on ICANN’s organizational structure. <a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/structure/">http://www.icann.org/en/structure/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-right:16.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/financials/eag-analysis-29may09-en.pdf"><span
lang=EN-US>attached paper</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'> [PDF, 272K] <span style='color:#1F497D'><br>
</span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/financials/eag-analysis-29may09-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/en/financials/eag-analysis-29may09-en.pdf</a><br>
</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>d</span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>escribes the Expense Area
Group reporting, the analysis and methodology used to create these reports, and
more information on cost accounting at ICANN. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This new EAG reporting is
simply one more view of ICANN’s finances, equal in importance with a functional
representation, or a representation by ICANN’s accounting codes. In fact, no
single representation captures the fundamentally interconnected nature of
ICANN’s work and mission. ICANN is responsible for coordinating the Internet’s
unique identifiers at a global level, which is only possible when all of
ICANN’s organizational structures are working with each other, and on a global
basis. Still, this EAG analysis should provide another useful way to understand
the totality of ICANN’s financial operation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The community is encouraged
to provide feedback on this new financial report, to help ensure that this type
of reporting is responsive to the needs of the community. A comment period has
been opened for feedback on the Expense Area Group reporting at this <a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-200906.html#eag-feedback">online
forum</a> and will remain open until after the Sydney meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Glen de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>GNSO Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>http://gnso.icann.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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