[council] Proposed Comment on FY17 Budget and Operating Plan

Tue Apr 26 16:38:44 UTC 2016

Dear James, Berry!

I think it is an impressive list of real questions. Nevertheless I had 
suggested to Ed Morris to either start or end the letter with some 
overarching forward looking questions about the way the GNSO is about to 
face this new important role. I exchanged some ideas with Ed but I´m 
not sure if he is going to make a proposal in time. I will check again 
with him

Best

Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
+506 8837 7176
Skype: carlos.raulg
Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
On 25 Apr 2016, at 17:52, James M. Bladel wrote:

> Berry -
> Thank you for driving this topic.  Appreciate your efforts to gather 
> edits
> and coordinate the contributions.
>
> Council Colleagues -
> Please note that the window between the time we receive a response to 
> our
> Clarifying Questions and the comment due day (30 APR) will be quite
> small—perhaps only a day or two.  So if you spot anything 
> problematic in
> this draft, or in the responses please post those thoughts to the 
> Council
> list as soon as you can.
>
> Thank you,
>
> J.
>
>
>
> On 4/25/16, 13:43 , "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,
>>
>> This is just a reminder about the FY17 Draft Budget out for Public
>> Comment.  I've attached the latest draft version that will be 
>> submitted
>> on behalf of the GNSO Council.  If you have any other suggestions or
>> edits, please send them to the Council mail list by 23:59 UTC, Friday 
>> 29
>> April.  I will compile the latest edits and ready the draft for
>> submission by James on the 30th.
>>
>> Also, we did submit a few clarifying questions to the Finance team.  
>> We
>> should see responses to those in the next day or so.  I will forward 
>> them
>> to the Council as soon as we receive them.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> B
>>
>> Berry A. Cobb
>> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers
>> 720.839.5735
>> mail at berrycobb.com
>> @berrycobb
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. [mailto:crg at isoc-cr.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 11:27
>> To: Berry Cobb
>> Cc: GNSO Council List
>> Subject: Re: [council] Proposed Comment on FY17 Budget and Operating 
>> Plan
>>
>> Thank you Berry!
>>
>> my comments and questions on version 0.3 as per attachment
>>
>> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
>> +506 8837 7176
>> Skype: carlos.raulg
>> Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
>> On 14 Apr 2016, at 17:20, Berry Cobb 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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+A
>>>>> pril+ 2016), but not listed as a motion to be voted on
>>>>> (https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+14+
>>>>> April
>>>>> +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>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>