[council] [EXTERNAL] Re: SC-ICANN Budget: Draft Submission of Council Comments on ICANN's Reserve Target Level

Heather Forrest haforrestesq at gmail.com
Wed Nov 29 04:55:13 UTC 2017


Piling on to previous messages, but noting that the IPC is also working on
comments (not yet finalised) that seem headed to diverge with these
Standing Committee comments.

Best wishes,

Heather

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Austin, Donna via council <
council at gnso.icann.org> wrote:

> All
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> Just following up on my email yesterday about the Council comments being
> inconsistent with the RySG comments.
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> The RySG has not yet finalized its comments, but the current draft
> questions the rationale provided by ICANN to change the target level for
> the ICANN Reserve Fund from 12 months, to 12 - 17 or more months of
> operating expenses and concludes that there are insufficient arguments to
> change the target level from 12 months.  The RySG believes that ICANN
> should explain why it thinks that $142M isn't a sufficient reserve fund for
> its purposes and why it now needs over $200M.
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> The RySG comments also questions the validity of the three not-for-profit
> organisations chosen by ICANN for comparative purposes and considers it
> essential that the report provide the grounds on which they were selected.
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> Therefore, the RySG could not support either option 1 or 2 of the current
> Council draft and also has a slightly different perspective on the first
> dot point under General Comments.
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> Donna
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> *From:* council [mailto:council-bounces at gnso.icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Austin,
> Donna via council
> *Sent:* Monday, November 27, 2017 11:31 AM
> *To:* Erika Mann <erika at erikamann.com>
> *Cc:* gnso-SECS <gnso-secs at icann.org>; GNSO Council List (
> council at gnso.icann.org) <council at gnso.icann.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [council] [EXTERNAL] Re: SC-ICANN Budget: Draft Submission
> of Council Comments on ICANN's Reserve Target Level
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> Thanks to all who contributed to this draft.
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> Unfortunately the Council comments are inconsistent with those being
> prepared by the RySG and as such the Council comments could not be
> supported.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Nov 27, 2017, at 10:34 AM, Erika Mann <erika at erikamann.com> wrote:
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> Berry, hi -
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> when we debated the topic in the subgroup I raised concern to increase
> the reserve fund level (up to 17 months). I like to repeat my concern
> again.
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> Thanks,
> Erika
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> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Berry Cobb <mail at berrycobb.com> wrote:
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> GNSO Council Members,
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> On behalf of the GNSO Council Standing Committee on ICANN’s Budget and Ops
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> Plan (informal until Council adoption of charter), I attach here a draft of
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> comments regarding ICANN’s Reserve Target Level for your consideration and
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> eventual submission to the public comment forum, absent any objections from
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> Council members.  The comment submission deadline is 30 November 2017 and
> as
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> such Council’s deliberation on this draft can occur via the Council’s
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> mailing list and it will also be an agenda item on the 30 Nov Council
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> meeting.
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> The standing committee met last week to discuss this topic and was also
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> joined by Xavier Calvez, ICANN’s CFO.  As agreed during that call, staff
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> assisted the committee with developing a first  draft.  This draft contains
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> two options with regards to the size of the Reserve Fund; option 1 in line
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> with the current target as analyzed by staff and the Board Finance
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> Committee, and option 2 that proposes an extension to 24 months of
> operating
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> expenses.  Please refer to the attached draft for details and the analysis
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> paper submitted for public comment
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> (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
> 3A__www.icann.org_public-2Dcomments_reserve-2Dfund-
> 2D2017-2D10-2D12-2Den&d=DwIGaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_
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> EMW4W0OFv1kagWlUuvLAlb8RmHpUxjUwK23CMesmaj0&e=).  Only
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> one comment has been submitted to date.
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> On behalf of the Council Leadership and again absent any objections, staff
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> can submit the final version of comments to the forum by 23:59 UTC, 30
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> November 2017.
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> In the meantime, please let staff or Council leadership know if you have
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> questions about process or this draft of comments.  Thank you for your
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> attention to this matter.
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> Berry A. Cobb
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