RE: [council] Staff analysis of WHOIS Proxy and Privacy Abuse Study RFP responses

[Liz Gasster <liz.gasster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Chuck and I wanted to respond to your question about carrying over 
funding for Whois studies beyond the current Fiscal Year.

After checking with the CFO on this, I want to share the following:

 1.  The bylaws provide for an annual budget.  It is silent about multiyear 
budgeting.
 2.  The Board Budget Committee is looking at multiyear budgeting in the future.
 3.  The best approach is to use the FY 12 budget consultation process to 
identify funding needs for the Whois studies beyond FY 2011 which staff can 
then support.  I do believe the intent is to begin the consultation process 
shortly.
Thank you for your attentiveness to this issue. Of course I am available to 
provide any information that might help support the budget process including 
details on the staff and Council analysis and review to-date and our 
anticipated implementation timetable going forward.   As the Council well 
appreciates, there are many details regarding each of the studies that are 
worthy of careful analysis and review, and this process has not fit neatly into 
the budgeting cycle.  Hopefully we can urge an approach that will accommodate 
this situation.

Liz


From: Gomes, Chuck [mailto:cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 5:17 AM
To: Liz Gasster; council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [council] Staff analysis of WHOIS Proxy and Privacy Abuse Study 
RFP responses

Thank you very much Liz and thanks to the Staff members who cooperated to 
produce this analysis as well as the comparison of the bidders.  .  In this 
week's Council meeting, a few minutes are allocated for a very brief mention of 
the analysis, but any major discussion regarding whether or not to do Study #3 
will be planned for the 28 October Council meeting.   In anticipation of that, 
has the question about use of the FY11 funds allocated for Whois studies been 
answered, i.e., do the $400,000+ budgeted funds have to be spent in FY2011 or 
may they be carried over and spent in FY2012?

Chuck

From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Liz Gasster
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 8:44 PM
To: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [council] Staff analysis of WHOIS Proxy and Privacy Abuse Study RFP 
responses

All,

Attached please find staff's analysis of the Proxy and Privacy "Abuse" study 
based on responses received from independent researchers to the RFP we 
previously published.

We would be glad to answer any questions or provide additional information.  
The analysis will be posted tomorrow and may be found at:  
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/.

Thanks, Liz