[WP1] Budget

Thu Oct 8 11:41:57 UTC 2015

Roelof,

I have the same position. I think the formal a priori involvement of the
community in the budget development would void the need for the budget veto.

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Tijani BEN JEMAA

Executive Director

Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (FMAI)

Phone:  + 216 41 649 605

Mobile: + 216 98 330 114

Fax:       + 216 70 853 376

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De : Roelof Meijer [mailto:Roelof.Meijer at sidn.nl] 
Envoyé : jeudi 8 octobre 2015 11:18
À : Tijani BEN JEMAA; wp1 at icann.org
Objet : Re: [WP1] Budget

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> on behalf of Tijani BEN JEMAA
<tijani.benjemaa at fmai.org.tn>
Date: dinsdag 6 oktober 2015 20:19
To: "wp1 at icann.org" <wp1 at icann.org>
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

Executive Director

Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (FMAI)

Phone:  + 216 41 649 605

Mobile: + 216 98 330 114

Fax:       + 216 70 853 376

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