From a business perspective I fully agree with Michele. There should be a transparent mechanism for ICANN’s procurement process and practice which from time to time should come under a review.

Best regards Wolf-Ulrich From: Michele Neylon - Blacknight Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:08 PM To: Xavier J. Calvez ; accountability-cross-community@icann.org ; community-finance@icann.org ; cwg-stewardship@icann.org ; icann-board@icann.org Cc: global_leadership@icann.org ; Senior Management Team Subject: Re: [community-finance] Updated IANA Stewardship Transition Expenses Information as of 31 December 2015 Xavier Thanks for sharing this information. It’s useful, though I suspect it’ll raise as many questions as it answers. One thing I did notice was in relation to the legal fees. Doing some back of the envelope calculations and noting how much ICANN generally spends on legal fees one question did come to mind, and this in relation to ICANN’s overall budgeting. How often does ICANN change law firms? Has ICANN ever changed law firms? As far as I can tell Jones Day has been doing ICANN’s legal work since ICANN’s formation Has ICANN ever put its external legal work out to any form of tender? While I know that people can argue that legal advice is not purely a numbers game, I’m also pretty sure that there are other law firms out that that would provide a similar service and potentially at a lower price. And my comments are no reflection on the quality of Jones Day’s work, but considering how much ICANN pays is legal fees per year I think it’s a question someone should ask. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains http://www.blacknight.host/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ http://ceo.hosting/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845 From: <community-finance-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of "xavier.calvez@icann.org" <xavier.calvez@icann.org> Date: Tuesday 1 March 2016 at 07:13 To: "accountability-cross-community@icann.org" <accountability-cross-community@icann.org>, "community-finance@icann.org" <community-finance@icann.org>, "cwg-stewardship@icann.org" <cwg-stewardship@icann.org>, "icann-board@icann.org" <icann-board@icann.org> Cc: Senior Management Team <senior-management-team@icann.org>, Global Leadership <global_leadership@icann.org> Subject: [community-finance] Updated IANA Stewardship Transition Expenses Information as of 31 December 2015 Dear all, Please find below a link to the quarterly update as of 31 December 2015 of the IANA Stewardship transition projects expenses. This update provides for the project’s costs from 1 July 2014 until 31 December 2015 (18 months). https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/iana-stewardship-project-costs Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Best, Xavier Xavier Calvez CFO ICANN 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90094 Office: +1 (310) 301-5838 Fax: +1 (310) 957-2348 Cell: +1 (805) 312-0052 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ community-finance mailing list community-finance@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/community-finance