<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div>Hi Jonathan</div><div><br></div><div>Currently it is “everyone’s” preference – anyone and everyone who is willing to review the budget and has an input can join us in the calls/webinars and the f2f budget workshops (>1/2 day) to raise any issue they see fit. </div><div>No one is barred from attending, these meetings are widely publicized and everyone is welcome. <b>Jonathan</b>, please join me at the Dublin budget meeting if you like. </div><div><br></div><div>Yes issues should be raised early enough but not unnecessarily so – staff need sufficient time to finalize the annual operating plan budget, publish it by our annual deadline (mid year). Just as in any other organization that has employees, collects revenue and has costs. We must have the means and discipline to publish our final annual budgets on time or we would have paralysis of the organization - how would we pay the the ICANN staff or our vendors eg meeting hotels/translation staff and and so on without having a set budget to work to? </div><div><br></div><div><div>What Cherine is proposing is that this process is set in stone, in a manner of speaking. The rights for a community input process on the development of the annual operating plan and budget will be enshrined.</div></div><div><br></div><div>In any case, going back to the point of my original email, I hope I have clarified that we are already co-operating on the budget. The budget review process is a long one, with community participants and staff working really hard to work through issues. So Avri’s email baffled me somewhat.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Asha</div><div><br></div><div>PS Congratulations on your wedding :-)</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Jonathan Zuck <<a href="mailto:JZuck@actonline.org">JZuck@actonline.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday, 9 October 2015 10:03 pm<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Asha Hemrajani <<a href="mailto:asha.hemrajani@icann.org">asha.hemrajani@icann.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:wp1@icann.org">wp1@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:wp1@icann.org">wp1@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> RE: [WP1] Budget<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1256"><meta content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap:break-word; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:14px; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">The further development of this process is EVERYONE's preference and if it works, we'll never need to use the buyer veto. The requirement that any issue be raised early means the community can never
go strait to this power besides having no motive to do so. Treating these paths as somehow mutually exclusive is a real mistake. They're a continuum of escalation that no one hopes to traverse to the end.<br><br>
Sent from my Windows Phone</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From:
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:asha.hemrajani@icann.org">Asha Hemrajani</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent:
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">10/9/2015 9:38 AM</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To:
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>;
<a href="mailto:wp1@icann.org">wp1@icann.org</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject:
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Re: [WP1] Budget</span><br><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Hi Avri</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Re your comment below "</font><i>Having said that, I do believe that the cooperation </i><i>between the board </i><i>and community on the budget should
be before it is approved in, not </i><i>after. Overruling should not be the issue, but cooperation. <u>If only </u></i><i><u>we could find a way to cooperate</u>.</i><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><i>”</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><i><br></i></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px">The fact is Avri – we DO co-operate BEFORE the budget is approved and not after…we most have certainly found a way to co-operate and it has been operational for a while. Tijani described
the process very well in his email below, let me repeat and describe in detail and would appreciate if you could let me know if there is something you would like us to shed more light on.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Xavier Calvez, the ICANN CFO, initiated a community consultation process for the budget. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Have a look at our published budget calendar which lists out the multiple engagements the board + staff have with stakeholders on the FY15 budget</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/opplan-budget-calendar-fy16-10nov14-en.pdf">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/opplan-budget-calendar-fy16-10nov14-en.pdf</a></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><br></div><ol><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Several meetings to discuss budget at each ICANN meeting (1 public session + SO/AC specific meetings with updates + 3 webinars on average. In Singapore for instance staff + board (myself)
had a 4.5 hour meeting with 10 community members: Rudi Vansnick, Chuck Gomes, Paul Diaz, Marilyn Cade, Tijani Ben Jemaa, Debbie Monahan, Giovanni Seppia (chair of CENTR), Jimson Olufye, (sorry cannot remember the other 2). For the FY16 process, we have added
5 webinars to review public comments. </li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px">public comment period specifically on the budget</li><li><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Significant changes made to the draft budget (based on the comments received) in order to produce the final budget.</font></li></ol></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><div>We will repeat this process in Dublin.</div><div>Avri, would welcome your inputs on this engagement process with the community and help us understand why you believe we do not cooperate and how we can improve.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>Asha</div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px">On 8/10/15 10:15 pm, "Avri Doria" <<a href="mailto:wp1-bounces@icann.org">wp1-bounces@icann.org</a> on behalf of
</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>> wrote:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px; border-left-color:rgb(181,196,223); border-left-width:5px; border-left-style:solid; padding:0px 0px 0px 5px; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I think that for many people, myself among them, the power to remove the</div><div>Board is purely a symbolic power, hard to believe that it would ever be</div><div>engaged. We get marked as horrible people when we argue with the board,</div><div>can you really imagine us rising up and voting them out? I can't.</div><div><br></div><div>Having said that, I do believe that the cooperation between the board</div><div>and community on the budget should be before it is approved in, not</div><div>after. Overruling should not be the issue, but cooperation. If only</div><div>we could find a way to cooperate.</div><div><br></div><div>avri</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 08-Oct-15 06:18, Roelof Meijer wrote:</div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="border-left:#b5c4df 5 solid; padding:0 0 0 5; margin:0 0 0 5"><div>Tijani,</div><div><br></div><div>Somewhere in June, I wrote on this subject:</div><div><br></div><div>"Like I said this morning: if the community has to have it’s veto of</div><div>the budget legally enforced, the disconnect between the board and the</div><div>community is so complete, that the board would have to (be forced to)</div><div>resign. So there’s no need at all for a condition that the mechanism</div><div>should deliver full authority on the budget."</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I am still of that opinion. If the community has the (enforceable)</div><div>power to dismiss the board or part thereof, it has the ultimate power</div><div>to steer any (important) process</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Roelof</div><div><br></div><div>From: <<a href="mailto:wp1-bounces@icann.org">wp1-bounces@icann.org</a> <<a href="mailto:wp1-bounces@icann.org>">mailto:wp1-bounces@icann.org></a>> on behalf</div><div>of Tijani BEN JEMAA <<a href="mailto:tijani.benjemaa@fmai.org.tn">tijani.benjemaa@fmai.org.tn</a></div><div><<a href="mailto:tijani.benjemaa@fmai.org.tn>">mailto:tijani.benjemaa@fmai.org.tn></a>></div><div>Date: dinsdag 6 oktober 2015 20:19</div><div>To: "<a href="mailto:wp1@icann.org">wp1@icann.org</a> <<a href="mailto:wp1@icann.org>">mailto:wp1@icann.org></a>" <<a href="mailto:wp1@icann.org">wp1@icann.org</a></div><div><<a href="mailto:wp1@icann.org>">mailto:wp1@icann.org></a>></div><div>Subject: [WP1] Budget</div><div><br></div><div>Jordan and all,</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>As promised during the last call, here is my take regarding the</div><div>community power about the budget:</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>I notice that we are much more focusing on the Budget veto after its</div><div>adoption by the board than on the involvement of the community in the</div><div>budget development.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Since few years , Xavier formed a community ad hoc group to discuss</div><div>the budget preparation from the planning till the last public comment</div><div>period before transmitting the budget to the board for adoption. This</div><div>experience has been improved over the years and now, we have a very</div><div>good consultation process that makes the budget almost agreed on by</div><div>the community. By the way, the ad hoc group will have a workshop of</div><div>several hours in Dublin.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>I think that all of us wish that we will never meet the situation</div><div>where an adopted budget is rejected by the community; at least I do.</div><div>And to avoid such a situation, I proposed that we formalize the</div><div>current consultation, and make it part of the official budget</div><div>development process. I find it more important and more constructive to</div><div>strengthen this a priori involvement of the community in the budget</div><div>development. I know that it was mentioned in our second report, but</div><div>wasn’t given the appropriate importance and wasn’t elaborated with</div><div>sufficient details.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>I propose that our final report makes this a priori involvement of the</div><div>community the main path and the veto, that I hope we will get rid of,</div><div>the exceptional and ultimate way.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>-------</div><div><br></div><div>*Tijani BEN JEMAA*</div><div><br></div><div>Executive Director</div><div><br></div><div>Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (*FMAI*)</div><div><br></div><div>Phone: + 216 41 649 605</div><div><br></div><div>Mobile: + 216 98 330 114</div><div><br></div><div>Fax: + 216 70 853 376</div><div><br></div><div></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>-------</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Avast logo <<a href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus">https://www.avast.com/antivirus</a>>
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