The ICANN budget expense analysis has been posted for some time now and the comment period has been extended to July 13 - see http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#eag-feedback. I would like to propose that the following statement be submitted to the ICANN comment process and (after the fact) ratified by the ALAC. It is not controversial but indicates that we are happy with the new detail provided and encourage it to be expanded and made more useful. If anyone DISAGREES or feels that it is inappropriate for us to comment, please speak up quickly. Thanks to Nick for the original draft of this statement. Alan ---------------------------------- Statement of the ALAC to the Public Consultation on Expense Analysis The ALAC wishes to commend the ICANN Board and financial management team on the greater transparency in its financial operations visible in the current FY budget. We look forward to further efforts of this kind to make ICANN's financial operations more transparent. In that vein, we wish to suggest more direct links in reporting between budget allocations and actual expenditure, and the link between financing for initiatives and their outcomes. For example, reporting on how effective recruitment and outreach efforts to grow the active ICANN community are when contrasted with the varying amounts budgeted and spent for these activities from year to year would be widely useful in our view.