[Rt4-whois] Fwd: Additional budget details

[Emily Taylor]

Hi Bill

Thanks for your analysis and your comments. I agree with all you say, and
asked myself similar questions.

We have concluded our work, the report has been published.  I think the
best thing is to put this document out into the public domain with a note
to say that it arrived too late for inclusion in the report or other
analysis, but we include it for the record and as a resource for future
review teams.

Kind regards

Emily

On 23 May 2012 18:52, Smith, Bill <bill.smith at paypal-inc.com> wrote:

> Making the information available seems a very good thing. However…
>
> With just a cursory review one might question the FY11 actuals:
>
>  *   Ignoring overhead, 46% of Compliance spending is "other department
> allocation".  A significant amount.
>  *   Travel has an overhead allocation of 36%. Why and for what purpose?
>  *   Admin overhead is calculated at a surprising 119%.
>  *   Other department allocation and overhead represent 57% of compliance
> spend.
>
> It would also be helpful to know what is included in each category in
> order to  better understand if funds are being spent appropriately.
>
> On the one hand I'm hesitant to include this information in our report
> without an opportunity to better understand the numbers and on the other, I
> was hoping we had concluded our work. Perhaps we could include a statement
> indicating that ICANN helpfully provided this information, but given that
> the RT had concluded its work, a thorough evaluation was not possible. We
> suggest that this information be provided much earlier in the next WHOIS
> Review cycle to enable the next RT to understand ICANN budgeting and to
> determine if Compliance funds are being spent appropriately.
>
> From: Emily Taylor <emily at emilytaylor.eu<mailto:emily at emilytaylor.eu>>
> Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:47 AM
> To: "rt4-whois at icann.org<mailto:rt4-whois at icann.org>" <rt4-whois at icann.org
> <mailto:rt4-whois at icann.org>>
> Subject: [Rt4-whois] Fwd: Additional budget details
>
> Hi all
>
> To clear up this loose end, I received additional information from Denise
> (below), which gives a little more detail on the way that the budgets are
> organised.  You may recall that rather than providing discrete budget lines
> for each department, ICANN appears to budget on a contribution basis, so
> that support functions (eg legal, finance, communications) have their spend
> distributed around the operational departments (new gTLDs, compliance).
>
> The additional information came too late for analysis and inclusion in the
> final report, but my proposal is that we publish it as part of Appendix B,
> and include an announcement on the call for public comment which draws
> attention to the new item.
>
> Any thoughts, objections?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Emily
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Denise Michel <denise.michel at icann.org<mailto:
> denise.michel at icann.org>>
> Date: 8 May 2012 20:04
> Subject: Additional budget details
> To: Emily Taylor <emily at emilytaylor.eu<mailto:emily at emilytaylor.eu>>
>
>
> Hi, Emily.
>
> My apologies for the delay on these additional numbers. Attached is the
> FY11 Functional Report for the Compliance activities. The report includes
> aggregate numbers for the major expense categories we discussed --
> Personnel, Travel, Professional Services and Administration. The report
> shows data for the FY11 Actual, the FY11 Budget, and the variance between
> the two. Note that approximately 5-10% of the following department budgets
> are used for compliance-related activities and are reflected in the
> attached as "Other dept. allocation":  Operations, IT, Legal, Registrar,
> Registry, Overhead.
>
>
> If you have any question please let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Denise
>
> Denise Michel
> ICANN
> Advisor to the President & CEO
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