The staff responses to the FY18 budget comments have now been posted - https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/report-comments-fy18-budget-02jun17-en.pdf .

Of particular interest to At-Large:

1. Our request to fund the ALAC Liaison to the GAC for travel to ICANN meetings has been funded for FY18, pending an analysis of the impact of funding this travel and and overall review of ICANN volunteer travel support.

2. Our request to fund five additional travellers to ICANN meetings to be allocated to "demonstrably active contributors" has been funded at the level of two additional travellers for FY18 pending an overall review of ICANN volunteer travel support. We are required to establish pilot criteria that it would use to identify "active" contributors who might benefit from public meeting travel support.

3. The $300,000 budget item identified as enhancements to the ICANN and At-Large web sites has been renamed "Internal ICANN projects to ensure that ICANN.Organization and Atlarge.Organization websites remain up-to-date and relevant" in keeping with this being an internal IT program to rationalize support of its websites (the ICANN and At-large web sites are the only ones that us the particular software tool that this project is focused on).

Alan