[CCWG-ACCT] [community-finance] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Schaefer, Brett
Brett.Schaefer at heritage.org
Wed Aug 3 18:43:36 UTC 2016
Thank you, I look forward to seeing the information.
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From: Xavier J. Calvez [mailto:xavier.calvez at icann.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 2:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] [community-finance] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Brett,
Thank you for following. I apologize for the delay in responding. I am close and hope to send an email response by the end of tomorrow, if not earlier. As you all know, we are working hard on the IANA stewardship transition implementation plan and have many critical deliverables with due dates every week, which consume a lot of our time.
This is not to say that this topic is not fundamentally important, it is, but there are simply other urgent and important activities that we are attending to at the same time.
Thank you.
Best,
Xavier
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Subject: RE: [CCWG-ACCT] [community-finance] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Xavier,
I hope you are back in the office and recovered. I believe you said you would be providing this information when you returned?
Thanks,
Brett
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] [community-finance] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Xavier,
Are you planning to answer the questions raised in this thread?
Thanks,
Brett
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] [community-finance] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
This is very useful discussion particularly on this very list. Any idea, how are the consultants/contractors hired by ICANN?. If this is through an RFP/competitive bid thn may be the RFP will have the detail/requirement what is required which in other words will mean what the consultants do. Not?
Zakir
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] [community-finance] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
I'd like to stick to the topic we are discussing which is disclosure about 'advisors', and lobbyists, and not venture until the gTLDs contracts. I fear that would become a bog that is too unbounded, with some questioning the marketing plans of different gTLDs, like give aways, etc.
So, I ask that as this is the CCWG-ACCT, and the topic is about the amounts paid for consultants specifically working on the IANA transition -- and who they are -- and that they have only ICANN as a client, not also members of ICANN's community on directly related subjects -- we stick to that discussion.
All law firms in the US 'clear' conflicts before accepting a new client, and all corporations 'clear' their consultants. While this may be confidential in both these cases, I do agree that a public interest NGO, which is what ICANN is, can best serve itself, and the interest of the broader ICANN community by as much transparency as possible. BUT let's keep it high level and civil in our request for facts and figures.
As I like to say: Facts are our friends.
Of course, some issues have to be kept confidential.
Who the consultants are has been published, what they were paid would add to the transparency. What they do, at a high level, should be published as well. I will say again that I think that the work is probably much needed. I spend a lot of time -- without being paid -- explaining ICANN as I do my other IG work and it is is a worthwhile task and an important one if we are to demystify ICANN to RoW [Rest of World].
I am sure it is all above board, but it has now taken on a sort of taint of 'why not tell'.
Let's keep this high level and not make it a hunt for the details, but just get the high level facts, and make that a standard.
Will help us all.
M
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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:23:12 -0400
As the non-lawyer economist here I would like to observe that the discussion has honed in on a specific enough question, one that has an ICANN definitive answer, and that it should be put both to the Board and the new CEO for a an answer and clarification. I previously worried that the ICANN DNS contract with .sucks seemed to verge on ICANN exposing itself to the RICO act in the U.S., given the .sucks marketing plan. Maybe I am overly cautious but as a not-for-profit corporation operating in the public interest ICANN is more than obliged to provide clarity here. Silence won't do.
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On 7/20/2016 12:06 PM, Phil Corwin wrote:
If the contract non-disclosure clause indeed violates IRS disclosure requirements then how could ICANN legal agree to it?
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Subject: Re: [community-finance] [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
I believe Lori is correct here. IRS requirements on disclosures are
usually quite specific here
Ken Stubbs
On 7/20/16 10:32, Lori Schulman wrote:
I don’t believe that 501©3 orgs can consider any consulting fees confidential as the top fees are required to be reported on the 990.
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
I agree completely with Marilyn and Phil. I have been on both sides of non-disclosure agreements – both ones requested by me and ones requested by my clients. Typically, a client (in the position of ICANN) may request that a consultant sign an NDA so as to protect the confidentiality of its efforts or its intellectual property. Sometimes a consultant might have a proprietary methodology or process that they are using on behalf of the client that they wish to protect.
Neither circumstance applies here that I can see. And in no case that I am aware of has a client ever asked me to keep confidential my fee … I don’t broadcast them, but I’m in the private sector. For ICANN, which is an NGO acting in the global public interest, I cannot see any reason at all why ICANN would want or agree to a confidentiality arrangement as to the size of the fee paid.
Xavier – can you tell us what the rationale is? I may be missing something …..
Thanks
Paul
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
I support Phil's clarifying explanation.
I also think that anyone who is in this category, should have to declare if they re also representing companies in a SO/AC.
Or advising governments.
In the BC, we do not allow an ICANN consultant to be a BC member, regardless of the amount, but if someone is a backdoor advisor to ICANN and also a group of entities, in a SO/AC, that would not be so obvious, but I think that for integrity sake, of course, any such entity would recuse themselves from advising companies, while also advising ICANN.
And I would expect ICANN to disqualify such entities as their consultants.
Thanks, Phil, for this useful clarification.
M
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
In the U.S. much of what used to be done by registered lobbyists is now performed by “strategic advisors” who walk right up to the line of what constitutes lobbying (and maybe a few inches over), and nonetheless facilitate door opening to key members of Congress and the Executive branch, and who “educate” rather than “lobby” members of both branches of government. So while the seven firms may not be engaged in what is considered lobbying under current U.S. law, they are still likely engaged in helping to assure officials outcomes desired by ICANN corporate.
It is for that reason – as well as for the exercise of effective oversight over ICANN budgeting and expenditures – that the community should have more data on this. If ICANN is prohibited by its contracts with these firms from disclosing its expenditures that is unfortunate – and in the future I would hope that ICANN would tell any firms being considered for such duties that its own transparency obligations to the community preclude it from agreeing to such restrictions (I’d wager that the majority of the firms would waive confidentiality rather than lose the contract).
At a minimum, ICANN should disclose the aggregate amounts spent with these seven firms since they were engaged – surely their contracts don’t bar such aggregate reporting.
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Xavier,
Are you saying that ICANN’s contracts for Education/Engagement/Advice with (1) Albright Stonebridge Group LLC, (2) Edelman, (3) Interface Media, (4) Rice Hadley Gates LLC, (5) Summit Strategies International LLC, (6) WBC Global, and (7) Wiley Rein LLP each contain confidentiality provisions that prohibit ICANN from disclosing the specific amount paid to each of these individual vendors?
Does this only apply to the CCWG and the public or does it also apply to other parts of the ICANN community, specifically the Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees?
Thank you for the link on lobbying disclosures. For those who are interested, here are ICANN’s lobbying expenditures based on the disclosure website of the U.S. Congress.
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I do have a couple of additional questions. Would this source capture lobbying exclusively directed toward the US Executive Branch? Has ICANN spent any funds during this period lobbying governments other than the US?
Thank you,
Brett
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Brett,
Yes, the information I provided in my latest email had been included in some previous communication. I just wanted to make sure you had a clear visibility on this information, which provides for (i) categories of expenses, (ii) the individual names of the vendors grouped for each category, and (iii) the total value of the expenses for each category.
With respect to the contractual obligations of confidentiality in commercial contracts, ICANN is subject to them, like all business organizations. That said, we disclose what we can consistent with standard business confidentiality provisions in vendor contracts. We cannot disclose the specific amount of spend with each vendor but we were able to disclose the names of the service providers engaged.
Regarding the lobbying expenses, as you are aware, both organizations that hire lobbyists and firms that lobby on behalf of organizations are required under U.S. federal law to file lobbying disclosure reports. In addition to ICANN’s quarterly lobbying disclosures posted on our website, you can find the amounts ICANN has paid to individual outside lobbying firms at http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldsearch.aspx<http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldsearch.aspx>.
I hope this helps and clarifies.
Thank you.
Best,
Xavier
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Xavier,
This is pretty much the same information that was provided before. I am asking for a breakdown of how much was paid to each vender in the lobbying category (Akin Gump, etc.) and the education/engagement/advice category (Albright Stoneridge, etc.).
Thank you,
Brett
On Jul 13, 2016, at 8:13 PM, Xavier J. Calvez <xavier.calvez at icann.org<mailto:xavier.calvez at icann.org>> wrote:
Dear Brett,
In response to your question listed below on 22 June: the detailed information provided on Other professional fees (other than legal fees, detailed in a separate section of the “Transition project cost” expense webpage, on the IANA Stewardship Transition webpage) can be found in the section called “Professional Services – Expenses Breakdown”. Within this section, you will find a link to a document that provides the list of Professional Services (other than legal fees) incurred, by category, with the names of the vendors, and the total amount of expenditures for the category.
This link is copied below and was provided in my first answer to your question. I have also attached the file to which this link refers in case the link would not work for you.
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-stewardship-expenses-professional-vendor-01jun16-en.pdf<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-stewardship-expenses-professional-vendor-01jun16-en.pdf>
If this not addressing your question, please let me know.
Thank you.
Best,
Xavier
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From: Xavier Calvez <xavier.calvez at icann.org<mailto:xavier.calvez at icann.org>>
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 9:45 AM
To: "Schaefer, Brett" <Brett.Schaefer at heritage.org<mailto:Brett.Schaefer at heritage.org>>, "community-finance at icann.org<mailto:community-finance at icann.org>" <community-finance at icann.org<mailto:community-finance at icann.org>>, "cwg-stewardship at icann.org<mailto:cwg-stewardship at icann.org>" <cwg-stewardship at icann.org<mailto:cwg-stewardship at icann.org>>, CCWG-Accountability <accountability-cross-community at icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community at icann.org>>
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Brett,
Thank you for following up.
I will make sure to respond no later than the end of this week.
Thank you.
Best,
Xavier
Xavier Calvez
ICANN
CFO
12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90094
Office : +1 (310) 301 5838
Mobile : +1 (805) 312 0052
Fax : +1 (310) 957-2348
From: "Schaefer, Brett" <Brett.Schaefer at heritage.org<mailto:Brett.Schaefer at heritage.org>>
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 11:38 AM
To: Xavier Calvez <xavier.calvez at icann.org<mailto:xavier.calvez at icann.org>>, "community-finance at icann.org<mailto:community-finance at icann.org>" <community-finance at icann.org<mailto:community-finance at icann.org>>, "cwg-stewardship at icann.org<mailto:cwg-stewardship at icann.org>" <cwg-stewardship at icann.org<mailto:cwg-stewardship at icann.org>>, CCWG-Accountability <accountability-cross-community at icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community at icann.org>>
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Subject: RE: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Xavier,
Thanks for promising to get this information to me in Helsinki. Do you have an estimate for when it will be provided?
Thanks,
Brett
________________________________
Brett Schaefer
Jay Kingham Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs
Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy
The Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
202-608-6097
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From: Schaefer, Brett
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 2:39 PM
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Subject: RE: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Xavier,
I appreciate the detailed breakdown on the legal fees That is indeed what I was looking for though I would think it useful to have the totals provided in the summary document.
However, I did not see similar information for lobbying or education/ engagement/advice in the links provided. In fact, the only specific information that I saw listed is for Jamie Hedlund at $200,000. No information on other individual firms or vendors is listed at all – only the top line budget expenditure in the summary document link originally sent around.
Could you provide that information?
Thanks,
Brett
From: Xavier J. Calvez [mailto:xavier.calvez at icann.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 10:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Dear all,
It appears that the first link in my email further below (detail of legal fees by firm) does not resolve correctly. Please use the below instead.
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-stewardship-expenses-legal-firm-fy16-01jun16-en.pdf<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-stewardship-expenses-legal-firm-fy16-01jun16-en.pdf>
Thank you.
Best,
Xavier
Xavier Calvez
ICANN
CFO
12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90094
Office : +1 (310) 301 5838
Mobile : +1 (805) 312 0052
Fax : +1 (310) 957-2348
From: Xavier Calvez <xavier.calvez at icann.org<mailto:xavier.calvez at icann.org>>
Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 1:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Dear Brett,
Thank you for your interest and question.
We currently publish the list of all vendors from whom ICANN obtain services in relation to the IANA Stewardship transition. The $$ value of the services received is aggregated by category of expenses, which you mention below (US Government affairs, Education/engagement/advice,…). This presentation is driven by 2 factors: providing clarity as to the type of services received, and abiding by the contractual obligation of confidentiality in force with each of the vendors (resulting from standard business sensitive information).
We do publish however the detail of the legal advice, by firm and by working group, on this same page (see for example the link to the report of fees by firm: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-stewardship-expenses-legal-firm-fy16-01jun16-en.pdf)<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-stewardship-expenses-legal-firm-fy16-01jun16-en.pdf%29>.
You will also find more information relative to ICANN’s lobbying in the following blog published a few months ago. In this blog, you will also find links to the disclosure reports that ICANN makes on lobbying activities.
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/lobbying-disclosures-contributions-2015-11-18-en<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/lobbying-disclosures-contributions-2015-11-18-en>.
Lastly, further information on lobbying appears in ICANN’s form 990 (Schedule C, Part II-B. On page 33/73 of the FY15 form 990 published at the following link):
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/fy-2015-form-990-10may16-en.pdf<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/fy-2015-form-990-10may16-en.pdf>
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have further questions.
Thank you.
Best,
Xavier
Xavier Calvez
ICANN
CFO
12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90094
Office : +1 (310) 301 5838
Mobile : +1 (805) 312 0052
Fax : +1 (310) 957-2348
From: "Schaefer, Brett" <Brett.Schaefer at heritage.org<mailto:Brett.Schaefer at heritage.org>>
Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 9:54 PM
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Subject: RE: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Xavier,
Thank you. Could you please provide a more detailed breakdown of legal advice, US government affairs, and educations/engagement/advice? In each category, there are multiple firms/vendors listed (https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-stewardship-expenses-professional-vendor-01jun16-en.pdf<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-stewardship-expenses-professional-vendor-01jun16-en.pdf>). I would appreciate the amount provided to each individual vendor. If it is provided somewhere, I would appreciate you letting me know where to find it.
Much appreciated,
Brett
________________________________
Brett Schaefer
Jay Kingham Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs
Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy
The Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
202-608-6097
heritage.org<http://heritage.org/>
From: accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org> [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Xavier J. Calvez
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 12:10 AM
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Subject: [CCWG-ACCT] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update
Dear all,
You find at the link below the updated project’s expenses as of FY16 Q3 (from July 2014 to March 2016). As indicated a few months ago, we have added new detailed information on the staff support with the individual positions, names and percentages of effort over the period.
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/iana-stewardship-project-costs<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/iana-stewardship-project-costs>
Thank you.
Best,
Xavier
Xavier Calvez
ICANN
CFO
12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90094
Office : +1 (310) 301 5838
Mobile : +1 (805) 312 0052
Fax : +1 (310) 957-2348
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