FW: [council] Proposed Comment on FY17 Budget and Operating Plan

Wed Apr 20 20:39:06 UTC 2016

For those of you interested to participate in a webinar that will be
scheduled to review / discuss the GNSO Council comments (if/when these
have been finalised), please complete the following doodle poll:
http://doodle.com/poll/c243n47vwsrxtifc.

Your comments and input on the attached draft would be appreciated. The
deadline for submission is 30 April so please share any comments, concerns
and/or support for the proposed comments as soon as possible.

Best regards,

Marika

On 14/04/16 17:20, "owner-council at gnso.icann.org on behalf of Berry Cobb"
<owner-council at gnso.icann.org on behalf of mail at berrycobb.com> wrote:

>All,
>
>Just as a reminder, Ed & Staff will finalize the list of Clarifying
>Questions appended to this draft public comment to Finance by 23:00 UTC 15
>April.  Should you or the group you represent have any more to add, please
>send them our way so that we can add them to the list.
>
>As noted by Marika below, there will also be upcoming webinars scheduled
>by
>Finance for each SO/AC to further explain the draft FY17 Budget and ask
>for
>any additional questions.  We expect those announcement to be out early
>next
>week.
>
>Thank you.
>
>B
>
>Berry A. Cobb
>Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers
>720.839.5735
>mail at berrycobb.com
>@berrycobb
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org]
>On
>Behalf Of Marika Konings
>Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 07:51
>To: Mary Wong; Amr Elsadr; GNSO Council List
>Cc: Edward Morris
>Subject: Re: [council] Proposed Comment on FY17 Budget and Operating Plan
>
>To add to Mary¹s response, the objective of the discussion is also to
>identify any additional questions that may exist in relation to the budget
>documents. The Finance Team has indicated that they are open to receiving
>any clarifying questions which they will attempt to answer prior to the
>closing of the public comment period so that these can be considered as
>part of the development of input for the public comment forum. On the last
>page of the draft you will already find a number of questions that were
>identified by members of the small team. If there are additional
>questions, you are encouraged to provide these so that these can get
>added. The hope is that the responses to the questions as well as feedback
>received on the current draft will allow for finalisation of the comment
>via the mailing list and submission in time for the 30 April deadline.
>Please note that the Finance Team is also in the process of scheduling
>calls with the different communities that have and/or will submit comments
>following the close of the public comment forum to 'enhance the
>understanding of the comments and so improve the quality of the response'
>(see https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-04-12-en).
>
>Best regards,
>
>Marika
>
>On 14/04/16 08:35, "owner-council at gnso.icann.org on behalf of Mary Wong"
><owner-council at gnso.icann.org on behalf of mary.wong at icann.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>Hello Amr and everyone,
>>
>>There is no motion to be voted on with respect to this topic. This was
>>also the case last year, when the Council also submitted a comment on the
>>FY16 Budget. The idea here is that the Council will discuss the draft
>>that was prepared by the small team at this call, with a view toward
>>finalizing any comments and changes via the email list subsequently but
>>in good enough time to submit the final comment by the 30 April deadline.
>>
>>FYI, while the GNSO Council will need a motion on any matter for which it
>>is required to vote (e.g. PDP-related topics), the Council does have the
>>ability to take action without a motion or voting on other matters. As
>>you may recall, this has been done a number of times with respect to
>>non-PDP and such topics for which is vote is not specifically required.
>>
>>I hope this helps.
>>
>>Thanks and cheers
>>Mary
>>
>>Mary Wong
>>Senior Policy Director
>>Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>>Email: mary.wong at icann.org
>>Telephone: +1-603-5744889
>>
>>
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>>On 4/14/16, 05:44, "owner-council at gnso.icann.org on behalf of Amr Elsadr"
>><owner-council at gnso.icann.org on behalf of aelsadr at egyptig.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Ed, James, Carlos and KeithŠ, thank you very much for this. I can¹t
>>>imagine that getting this done was particularly easy.
>>>
>>>I was wondering how we would be handling this on tonight¹s Council call.
>>>It is listed as an agenda item for Council approval on on the Council
>>>meeting agenda 
>>>(https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Agenda+14+April
>>>+
>>>2016), but not listed as a motion to be voted on
>>>(https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+14+Apri
>>>l
>>>+2016). So I¹m not entirely clear on what the outcome of this agenda
>>>item is meant to be. Any insight would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>Amr
>>>
>>>> On Apr 13, 2016, at 10:19 PM, Edward Morris <egmorris1 at toast.net>
>>>>wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> My Fellow Councillors,
>>>>  
>>>> You will recall at our ICANN55 Council meeting, a small team (James,
>>>>Carlos, Keith, myself) volunteered to formulate draft comments relating
>>>>to ICANN's proposed Draft FY17 operating plan and budget.  Attached you
>>>>will find a starter draft of comments for the Council to consider.
>>>>Track changes are enabled should any member of the Council wish to
>>>>suggest edits. Please feel to do so and then send them back over the
>>>>list. This small team with assistance from staff will maintain a master
>>>>copy to ready for submission.
>>>>  
>>>> The Public Comments are due by 30 April 2016, and thus we have just
>>>>over two weeks to make edits and then determine if the Council wishes
>>>>to submit them.  This topic is currently on the GNSO Council agenda for
>>>>tomorrow.  The small team also recognizes that likely all SGs & Cs will
>>>>be submitting their own comments.  In that regard and because we are
>>>>managers of the policy process, this draft of comments attempted to
>>>>only focus at a higher level of how the proposed budget impacts the
>>>>GNSO and its policy development activities.
>>>>  
>>>> This process for submitting comments mimics what occurred last year
>>>>for the FY16 draft budget.  Once that draft was completed over the
>>>>Council list, the comments were submitted without objection.  As we
>>>>will likely discuss tomorrow and based on this current experience, the
>>>>Council should consider formalizing this process especially in the
>>>>light of a future empowered community.
>>>>  
>>>> In addition to thanking James, Carlos and Keith with whom it has been
>>>>a pleasure to work with, special thanks go out from all of us  to Berry
>>>>and Marika for their exceptional input and dedicated effort on this
>>>>comment. We are extraordinarily lucky to have such fine staff assigned
>>>>to help us on Council.
>>>>  
>>>> We looks forward to everyone's input.
>>>>  
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>  
>>>> Ed Morris
>>>> <Budget Comment.docx>
>>>
>>>
>>

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