[Gnso-sc-budget] FW: Action Item from Kobe for the SCBO

Wed May 15 12:20:54 UTC 2019

Hi All,

I prepared the email below in response to Keith’s assignment of an action
item about the 5 Year Strategic Plan from ICANN65.  I only now realized this
did not get sent to the SCBO list.

Ayden, after review, please advise how you’d like to proceed.

Thank you.

B

GNSO Policy Consultant

@berrycobbb

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Subject: RE: [Gnso-sc-budget] Action Item from Kobe for the SCBO

Hi All,

To assist with the action item Keith mentioned below, I’m providing links to
the GNSO’s and CCNSO’s comments on the 5 Year Strategic Plan for comparison.
I’ve also provided a segment of the transcript of the GNSO/CCNSO Council
session in Kobe for reference.  Having read through it, the conversation
also touched on the FY20 Draft Budget which included a comment on clarity
around the Contingency bucket as well as Reserve Fund replenishment.  Thus,
it’s not entirely clear what the exact ask is other than to compare comments
on common ground for future collaboration as Keith notes.  Ayden, please
advice how you think the SCBO should proceed and I’m happy to assist where
needed.  Thank you.  B

CCNSO:
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-strategic-plan-20dec18/2019q1/000005
.html

GNSO:
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-strategic-plan-20dec18/2019q1/000009
.html

Katrina Sataki: Yes thank you. Thank you very much. Unfortunately we have to
try to speed up the session. Next on our agenda, there are comments about
ICANN's 2021 - 2025 strategic plan FY’20 operating plan and budget. Are
there any common concerns? So our SOPC Working Group as always has submitted
their comments. I know - how should we proceed with that taking into account
that we had excellent lunch and didn't start on time?  Maybe, Giovanni,
really very briefly the comments that - Giovanni is the Chair of the SOPC,
that’s why I refer back to him.  

Giovanni Seppia: Yes, very briefly indeed the SOPC, Strategic Operating
Planning – Committee of the ccNSO has produced comments on the ICANN fiscal
year ’20 operating plan and budget on the ICANN draft strategic budget
2021-2025 and also the two-year planning process. We had an interesting
meeting yesterday with the Finance Department where we were provided some
updates regarding the strategic plan and also the way they are going to
present as it was also said in the opening ceremony this morning, the
operating plan 2021 and 2025 which is going to be presented to us in a high
level format by June and in its full extent by the end of the year.  So
there were, let’s say there was the main concern of the CC community,

the SOPC, let’s say numbers was about the fact that especially for the
strategic plan we do not - we fail to understand the criteria that ICANN has
used to select one - the objectives and the goals that (tie) in the plan
because there are several times, there is reference to the fact that those
objectives and goals were selected among wide range of objectives and goals
and there's no reference to those that then turned down against those that
have been selected.  As we heard this morning, and it’s also present in all
these plans, there is some sort of pressure on ICANN. They mentioned several
times about challenges in the future and that their strategic plan is
crucial.  So the SOPC did comment that we would like to have a better
understanding of what the criteria for selecting those objectives and as a
overall comment we also stress again that it’s quite important to improve
the narrative of those plans if they want to improve the level of engagement
of the community especially from non-UK, non, let’s say, English mother
tongue because those plans are not so easy sometimes to go through and read
if you do not own the language but also if you do own the language sometimes
the narrative is quite challenging. Thank you.

Keith Drazek: Thank you very much, Giovanni. I think in the interest of time
we probably should make a - take an action item to do a comparison of the
comments that were submitted from our respective groups. That was an
excellent overview and summary. I’m going to ask Ayden if you have any -
just very brief comments because we're running short on time, but I think it
would make very good sense for us to, now that the comments have been
finalized and submitted, to compare the two and to identify any areas of
common cause for concern. So Ayden.

Ayden Férdeline: Thanks very much. Ayden Férdeline for the record. And I’m
the Chair of the GNSO Council Standing Committee on Budget and Operations.
And we also reviewed the proposed operating plan and budget for the coming
fiscal year.

We had many similar concerns as to what you expressed in your comment.  One
additional comment that we had was that we asked in our comment for ICANN to
provide more clarity around what is included in the contingency.  And so we
did ask that moving forward rather than being just one single lump sum for
contingency we asked to understand how is that actually comprised.  One
comment that - I’m making this now in my personal capacity - that you made
in your comment that I thought was very interesting and that I would like to
understand better and that I plan to take back to the standing committee was
you said that in order to reserve the - replenish the reserve fund over the
coming years there's going to be some kind of optimization amongst ICANN
Org. And so what is the plan for that? What is that going to look like? And
so I think that’s a very good question that you asked and certainly
something that as an action item I think we would like to be looking into as
well.  But absolutely, I think Keith raises an excellent point that we
should certainly look to conduct a more thorough evaluation of both of our
comments to see where there is overlaps and differences and hope to work
with you closely over the coming year as well. Thanks.

Keith Drazek: Okay thanks very much, Ayden. Okay so we need to move onto the
next topic is a question on selecting the IFRT membership

.

Thank you.

B

GNSO Policy Consultant

@berrycobbb

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Subject: [Gnso-sc-budget] Action Item from Kobe for the SCBO

Hi Ayden, all,

I’m working through GNSO Council Action Items from Kobe and wanted to flag
one for you and the SCBO.

Following our discussion with the ccNSO, the SCBO agreed to review the GNSO
Council and ccNSO Council comments on the 5-year Strategic Plan to identify
any areas of common ground and opportunities for future collaboration.

Thanks in advance for the SCBO’s focus on this.  Please let me know if you
have any questions.

Thanks,

Keith

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