hi Bruce

Can you tease out for us, or could other Board members, a little more detail on the fifth point - the budget process.

I accept and believe that we can and should make efforts to be economical with this work, and in particular to make use of professional assistance in a reasonable and well-planned way that minimises costs.

I also think a project budget, reasonably constructed, would be good to do, in collaboration with the CCWG. 

If more resources were found to be needed, it would make sense for instance to have a request for such validated by the chartering organisations.

In other words, a pretty normal project finance structure that provides some constraints.

Is that what you and the Board have in mind?  Or some thing else?


What do others think?


cheers
Jordan


On 12 January 2016 at 19:44, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au> wrote:
Hello All,

The Board discussed recommendation 12 in the Board information call today, and offers the following response:

First, the Board agrees that a transitional bylaw can be used to define the Board's commitment on WS2 matters.  Second, the effort anticipated in WS2 should be performed through cross community working groups chartered by multiple groups across ICANN, effort and not all work must be done by the existing CCWG-Accountability.  Third, the Board agrees that it will treat consensus based-recommendations on the limited list of WS2 topics (set out in the CCWG-Accountability's redline) just as it will consider the consensus-based WS1 recommendations from the CCWG-Accountability.  Fourth, the Board does not support the inclusion of a timeline for the required completion of WS2 efforts in the transitional Bylaw.  Finally, the Board supports that the costs of WS2 must be subject to the budgetary process for the year.  If the budget is exhausted and additional resources are necessary, the chartering organizations must support a request for Board consideration on additional funding.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin

Board liaison to the CCWG

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