Dear Members, Please find below my notes for my comment in the public forum relating to the FY12 Operating Plan & Budget Framework Chris Chaplow - Vice Chair of Finance and Operations and Finance for the Business Constituency. BC welcomes this opportunity to comment on the FY12 Operating Plan & Budget Framework. Many of our members have an deep interest in this subject. The BC submitted 5 key requests for budget support as part of the new AC/SO/SG request process last January. Externally we underlined our support for budget increases in Compliance, and are please to hear that two vacant positions have just been filled but our members remain concerned that staffing need to be brought up to FY10 budget levels of 15 staff supported by the best technology tools to and in the words of the FY11 plan ICANN will continue to aggressively enforce contractual compliance of registrar and registry agreements. We support the work on organizing the Whois Studies, and of course all resources to support the excellent work of the Policy staff. Internally we requested budget support via the constituency toolkit of services and for an Outreach project. This was last January. The framework plan has now been published and is open for public comment until 6th April. It is presented in a very user friendly 17 slide ppt deck format, last year it was a 70 page document. So I am going to underline our request for more detail. I support the new idea of separating in the budget core activity and project activity. Twelve projects are identified but only a sum total (of 11.1 million $ - 20% of the ICANN Budget) has been provided. This makes it difficult to offer meaningful feedback. Thank you. Chris Chaplow Managing Director Andalucia Web Solutions Avenida del Carmen 9 Ed. Puertosol, Puerto Deportivo 1ª Planta, Oficina 30 Estepona, 29680 Malaga, Spain Tel: + (34) 952 897 865 Fax: + (34) 952 897 874 E-mail: <mailto:chris@andaluciaws.com> chris@andaluciaws.com Web: <http://www.andaluciaws.com/> www.andaluciaws.com