[Gnso-sc-budget] Final Proposed FY19 Operating Plan and Budget

Wed May 23 16:39:53 UTC 2018

All,
Re: University of Oregon / NSRC.

To inform your conversation on this topic: I will ask David Conrad our CTO to describe it better than I am, but in substance this is effectively using the services of the NSRC (Network Startup Resource Center, hosted by the University of Oregon) to deliver internet security trainings. We believe this is actually a very cost effective approach to providing such security trainings (I did ask that question in the past). Rafik provided a link to their website.

Thank you.

Best,

Xavier

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From: Gnso-sc-budget <gnso-sc-budget-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele at blacknight.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 6:05 AM
To: Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>, "Austin, Donna" <Donna.Austin at team.neustar>
Cc: "gnso-sc-budget at icann.org" <gnso-sc-budget at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [Gnso-sc-budget] Final Proposed FY19 Operating Plan and Budget

I suspect they don’t *need* the money, but God only knows ..

It’d be interesting to know what the cost difference is between 2 days and 3 days for the council event in January

Also 2 days might be sufficient if they are two full days of meetings ie. 0900 to 1700

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From: Gnso-sc-budget <gnso-sc-budget-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>
Reply-To: Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>
Date: Tuesday 22 May 2018 at 23:42
To: "Austin, Donna" <Donna.Austin at team.neustar>
Cc: "gnso-sc-budget at icann.org" <gnso-sc-budget at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [Gnso-sc-budget] Final Proposed FY19 Operating Plan and Budget

The Form 990 does not offer much detail, but for the University of Oregon the description is "NSRC CONTRIBUTION", and for ISOC, the description is "CRYPTECH." ISOC has $30m+ coming in annually from PIR, so it is unclear to me why they require ICANN resources.

Ayden

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On 23 May 2018 12:19 AM, Austin, Donna <Donna.Austin at team.neustar> wrote:

I’m curious: why is ICANN donating to the University of Oregon? ISOC, I kind of understand although they already have a source of funding from PIR so I’d be curious to know what the $287,500 is for.

From: Ayden Férdeline [mailto:icann at ferdeline.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 1:43 PM
To: Austin, Donna <Donna.Austin at team.neustar>
Cc: gnso-sc-budget at icann.org
Subject: RE: [Gnso-sc-budget] Final Proposed FY19 Operating Plan and Budget

Thanks for your comments, Donna.

I am equally disappointed by the reduction in length of the Council's Strategic Planning Session. We had a very productive meeting this year and, as our outcome document demonstrates, it helped us better understand our role as a part of the Empowered Community and our responsibilities in managing the GNSO Policy Development Processes.

Unless I am underestimating the costs involved in hosting this event (which was held this year at ICANN's office in Marina del Rey, so ICANN had no need for external venue hire), the only additional cost here in stretching this to a three-day event is one additional night of hotel and per diem for each of the 22 travellers (21 Councillors + 1 volunteer facilitator), and a catered lunch. Surely this could not cost much more than $5,000?

I understand the need to be fiscally prudent, but as I have said a few times, not at the expense of good judgement. We saw in the Form 990 that ICANN was donating $140,000 to the University of Oregon, $287,500 to the Internet Society, etc. - is there no way that an extra $5,000 could be found somewhere in the $140,000,000 budget to support this very important session where the Council will develop its 2019 work plan?

Would it be appropriate for the SCBO to draft a letter, which we would in turn ask the Council to consider submitting to the Board ahead of their 30 May meeting, asking that the GNSO Council's Strategic Planning Session be lengthened by one day and outlining the fruits of this year's inaugural meeting?

Best wishes,

Ayden

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On 22 May 2018 7:27 PM, Austin, Donna <Donna.Austin at team.neustar<mailto:Donna.Austin at team.neustar>> wrote:

Thanks for the update Ayden.

Weren’t the Fellowship numbers actually reduced overall from previous years? I think the original proposal was to cut the numbers from 60 to 30, and it seems ICANN has split the difference based on feedback and increased 30 to 45, so overall there was a reduction in the numbers.

I’m disappointed to see the Council Strategic Planning Session reduced from 2 days to 3. This seems somewhat shortsighted as I expect the primary costs are associated with getting people to the one venue, but I guess 2 days is better than none.

Thanks again for being so diligent on the budget issues.

Donna

From: Gnso-sc-budget [mailto:gnso-sc-budget-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Ayden Férdeline
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 2:12 AM
To: gnso-sc-budget at icann.org<mailto:gnso-sc-budget at icann.org>
Subject: [Gnso-sc-budget] Final Proposed FY19 Operating Plan and Budget

The final proposed FY19 Operating Plan and Budget has now been published:

https://www.icann.org/news/blog/final-proposed-fy19-operating-plan-and-budget<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_news_blog_final-2Dproposed-2Dfy19-2Doperating-2Dplan-2Dand-2Dbudget&d=DwMGaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=CwipU91YB6EkpFXK9ynnT_QUef4yC5p7jpsDm8cU97g&m=M2U_hGABCyuFK6WXXt4kChwwAhBZKiRDTielcDEl4oc&s=COWHaRYMg4-NaQ0I6Q8KT6Mpqmynwf2UJhrz_m8IF4s&e=>

Rather disappointingly, I note that, "The Fellowship Program received an increase from 30 to 45 seats per meeting, based on your feedback."

This was feedback not from the community, but from fellows, who had a vested interest in the programme's enlargement.

More relevant to the Council, our Strategic Planning Session was recommended for approval in FY19, however only for two days (rather than the three days which had been requested).

Ayden Férdeline

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