[Gnso-sc-budget] Bullet point on GSE

[Ayden Férdeline]

Dear all,

In relation to the following bullet point:

● The GNSO Council's Standing Committee has had detailed discussions about the resources allocated to global engagement activities, and found that there are many unanswered questions, some of which relate to the value proposition of these expenditures. The GNSO Council requests that ICANN review its global stakeholder engagement activities to ensure that they are all closely aligned with ICANN's mission, and assess how activities meet this criteria. We believe that there should be a particular focus on what tangible outcomes - both direct and indirect - have been derived from ICANN's participation or sponsorship of these events. We greatly appreciate that the larger Internet ecosystem has risks to ICANN's mission and activities. However, we strongly advise that the impact of many of ICANN's engagement activities is neither well understood, well documented, nor subject to the discipline of reliable metrics and performance measurement.

We have received the following comment from Donna Austin:

Is there a better way for us to make the point that moving forward it is important for ICANN to prioritise its budget to ICANN's core mission and activities, of which policy development is one. Throwing stones is not the best approach here.

In order to resolve this, please can you indicate which of these options you support:

1. Support including the bullet point as-is.

2. Support revising the bullet point - and please provide alternative text.

3. Prefer that this bullet point not be included in our comment.

4. Abstain.

Thank you.

Best wishes,

Ayden
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