[UA-discuss] Preparing a Budget request

[Rubens Kuhl]

> Em 25/02/2015, à(s) 20:08:000, Kurt Pritz <kpritz at thedna.org> escreveu:
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> Hi Everyone:
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> I am writing to request your input on an approach to making a budget / funding request to ICANN. I make some recommendations below but am open to others.
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> During the Singapore meeting many identified the formulation of a budget or funding request to ICANN as a high-priority item: high priority because funding of a communication effort is required to promote Universal Awareness of the issue and and also because ICANN's budgeting season is in full swing and the ICANN timetable calls for "community" budget requests very shortly.
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> I recommend that our immediate action is to write to Akram & Cyrus, who kicked off the UA session in Singapore with a commitment of ICANN support to let them know we are formulating a request and ask them how we should submit it. I'd be happy to draft that.
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> I also recommend that we form a team to formulate a proposal. There are a number of marketing and communications professionals on our UA team and, believing the most significant portion of the proposal will have to do with communication, we should recruit them into this effort. We can utilize the existing UA-Comms email list to conduct the discussion and add those that want to participate. I can work with Don Hollander to coordinate the launch of that discussion. 
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> Besides a communications effort, there might be other efforts:
> building and staffing a UA issues desk of the handling "complaints" about UA issues
> building software or other tools 

Kurt,

On this line, I think it could be made more generic by including both building and fixing. There are two types of efforts that I see could be part of an UA-effort:
- Building software that can be used by other parties. This could be validation libraries that correctly determine a valid domain name, e-mail address etc. 
- Fixing software already in use by other parties. This could be free software that is currently use and present UA challenges, so the effort could fund someone fixing them. One example, if this wasn't already done, would be to develop EAI code for Postfix, a commonly used e-mail transfer agent. 

As for the funding itself, I note that there are two options in most part: funding as in spending money to specific deliverables (like a communications campaign or a software build request) or in hiring someone that would work toward those goals (like ICANN hiring a software developer and then such developer taking assignments). I don't think that we should be strict on which option should be used, but providing guidance on which model we think would work best. 


Rubens

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