[WP1] Budget

[Roelof Meijer]

Tijani,

Somewhere in June, I wrote on this subject:

"Like I said this morning: if the community has to have it’s veto of the budget legally enforced, the disconnect between the board and the community is so complete, that the board would have to (be forced to) resign. So there’s no need at all for a condition that the mechanism should deliver full authority on the budget."


I am still of that opinion. If the community has the (enforceable) power to dismiss the board or part thereof, it has the ultimate power to steer any (important) process

Best,

Roelof

From: <wp1-bounces at icann.org<mailto:wp1-bounces at icann.org>> on behalf of Tijani BEN JEMAA <tijani.benjemaa at fmai.org.tn<mailto:tijani.benjemaa at fmai.org.tn>>
Date: dinsdag 6 oktober 2015 20:19
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Subject: [WP1] Budget

Jordan and all,

As promised during the last call, here is my take regarding the community power about the budget:

I notice that we are much more focusing on the Budget veto after its adoption by the board than on the involvement of the community in the budget development.

Since few years , Xavier formed a community ad hoc group to discuss the budget preparation from the planning till the last public comment period before transmitting the budget to the board for adoption. This experience has been improved over the years and now, we have a very good consultation process that makes the budget almost agreed on by the community. By the way, the ad hoc group will have a workshop of several hours in Dublin.

I think that all of us wish that we will never meet the situation where an adopted budget is rejected by the community; at least I do. And to avoid such a situation, I proposed that we formalize the current consultation, and make it part of the official budget development process. I find it more important and more constructive to strengthen this a priori involvement of the community in the budget development. I know that it was mentioned in our second report, but wasn’t given the appropriate importance and wasn’t elaborated with sufficient details.

I propose that our final report makes this a priori involvement of the community the main path and the veto, that I hope we will get rid of, the exceptional and ultimate  way.

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Tijani BEN JEMAA
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Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (FMAI)
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