[Finance-sc] Fast track vs. normal track requests

[Wolf Ludwig]

Dear Olivier and all,

it's difficult to make up my mind on "whether we should open a new round of RALO requests, ..." I prefer to discuss this issue at a next (placeholder) call. Thanks and

kind regards,
Wolf


Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:25:
>Dear members of the Finance & Budget sub-committee,
>
>
>a recent discussion with one of the RALO leaderships made it appear that
>they were really rushed to go through their internal processes to
>approve requests. Perhaps it was a lack of communication from members of
>the FBSC to their region, perhaps it was just the fact that we had less
>than one month to put together the budget requests.
>
>As you'll note on the ICANN Finance WIKI, there are actually two deadlines:
>https://community.icann.org/display/projfinadhocws/At+Large+-+FY14+Special+Budget+Request
>
>
>      Deadlines:
>
>  *
>
>
>          Early vote/decision by April => submit by 3/22/2013
>
>  *
>
>
>          Vote/decision by June => submit by 4/29/2013
>
>
>In order to save ourselves from needed to frantically work immediately
>after the ICANN meeting in April, the request from RALOs to send their
>requests was aligned with the fast track. This put pressure on them to
>get their proposals done fast - but some might have forgotten about
>requests which would not need a fast track.
>
>As a result, I am asking you, members of the FBSC, whether we should
>open a new round of RALO requests, if they wish to add any request that
>would take place from November 2013 onwards -- hence using the "Normal
>Track".
>
>If this is the case, then Gisella has already prepared a placeholder for
>a call on 22 April 2013 - and we *could* use this call to:
>1. follow-up on any follow-up requests from Finance on our initial round
>2. discuss the second round of requests
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Olivier
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