<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Jonathan,<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Thank you for forwarding the revised Comment Analysis. There are two items missing under the section "Options for CCWG Consideration” which were in the note I sent you. These are:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><u class="">During the Development of the Annual Operating Plan and Budget</u>: The <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 15pt;" class="">Board must be able to align cost with revenue so
that the financial stability of ICANN is not jeopardized.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 15pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 15pt;" class=""><u class="">After the Annual Operating Plan and Budget are Approved</u>: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 15pt; font-family: Times;" class="">The
Board </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 15pt; font-family: Times;" class="">must retain, throughout the Fiscal Year, the ability to approve
certain new expenses not planned for in the approved Annual Operating Plan and
Budget. This allows the Board to act in
cases of unforeseen urgent matters that put ICANN’s operation and mission at
risk. Of course this recommendation goes hand in hand with the recommendation to empower </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 15pt; font-family: Times;" class="">the community to consider and reject any deviation from the approved Annual
Operating Plan and Budget that relate to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 15pt; font-family: Times;" class="">expenses
for new initiatives that are not in the Five Year Strategic or Operating Plans
and that are inconsistent with the Purpose, Mission and Role set out in ICANN’s
Articles and Bylaws, after they are approved by the Board (but before they come
to effect).</span></div><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 15pt; font-family: Times;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: -24px;" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I am concerned that these two recommendations are taken out of context. I am therefore resending for the benefit of everyone on the WP1 my note on the budget.</span></font></div><div style="text-indent: -24px;" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: -24px;" class=""></div></div></body></html>