Re: [council] Proposed Comment on FY17 Budget and Operating Plan

[Amr Elsadr <aelsadr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mary, Marika,

Thank you both very much. That is very reassuring. To be honest, I haven’t 
managed to go through the letter as closely as I would like to yet, which is 
why I was asking. I look forward to tonight’s discussion.

Thanks again.

Amr

> On Apr 14, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Marika Konings <marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> To add to Maryąs 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Mary Wong"
> <owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of mary.wong@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx
>> Telephone: +1-603-5744889
>> 
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>> On 4/14/16, 05:44, "owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Amr Elsadr"
>> <owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of aelsadr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Ed, James, Carlos and KeithŠ, thank you very much for this. I canąt
>>> imagine that getting this done was particularly easy.
>>> 
>>> I was wondering how we would be handling this on tonightąs 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+April+
>>> 2016), but not listed as a motion to be voted on
>>> (https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+14+April
>>> +2016). So Iąm 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@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> 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>