Dear All: At the request of the Chair, the Staff have amended the draft Draft ALAC Statement on the Operating Plan and Budget Framework, attempting to incorporate the comments received during the comment period. The ALAC Finance and Budget Subcommittee will meet tomorrow and, amongst other things, finalise this statement so that it can be transmitted to the Board of ICANN. I am sure they would be helped in their deliberations if those who commented in particular were to review the revisions. We have therefore provided a URL which makes it easier to see the changes from the draft which was the subject of the community consultation, and also a URL for the summary of comments received. The various URLs are below. We hope you will understand that with respect to some issues there are clearly differences of view; we have tried to represent them all faithfully. We hope that we have succeeded. Note that in one case, the comments of B Schombe of Africa, we have enquiries as to the precise meaning of the statements. Draft Statement: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?al_alac_bud_sc_0308_1_2 Summary of Comments: https://st.icann.org/data/workspaces/alac/attachments/18_april_2008:20080418 112809-0-19712/files/AL-ALAC-BUD-SC-0408-1%20WS%20listing%20of%20comments%20 received.htm Page to view changes incorporating comments made: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?action=revision_compare&page_name=al_ala c_bud_sc_0308_1_2&mode=source&new_revision_id=20080421160925&old_revision_id =20080415145205&Button=Compare+Revisions URL for meeting agenda and related documents: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?22_april_2008 Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff@atlarge.icann.org