[Rt4-whois] Fwd: Additional budget details

Wed May 23 18:05:06 UTC 2012

I agree with both of you.  Many questions arise when reading the
information but I do not think we should try and regroup to evaluate it.
Susan Kawaguchi
Domain Name Manager
Facebook Legal Dept.

Phone - 650 485-6064

On 5/23/12 10:57 AM, "Smith, Bill" <bill.smith at paypal-inc.com> wrote:

>Sounds good to me.
>
>From: Emily Taylor <emily at emilytaylor.eu<mailto:emily at emilytaylor.eu>>
>Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:55 AM
>To: "Smith, Bill" 
><bill.smith at paypal-inc.com<mailto:bill.smith at paypal-inc.com>>
>Cc: "rt4-whois at icann.org<mailto:rt4-whois at icann.org>"
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>Subject: Re: [Rt4-whois] Fwd: Additional budget details
>
>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<mailto:bill.smith at paypal-inc.com>> wrote:
>Making the information available seems a very good thing. HoweverŠ
>
>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><mailto:emily at emilytaylo
>r.eu<mailto:emily at emilytaylor.eu>>>
>Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:47 AM
>To: 
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>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><mailto:denise.mic
>hel 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><mailto:emily at emilytaylo
>r.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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