Dear SOP members,
Please find below Xavier Calvez’s email, introducing the revised Report of Public Comments on the Draft FY14 Ops Plan and Budget.
For your convenience (it is not that easy to find), I attach ICANN’s summary comments on the community’s comments.
Under reference #99 to #112, you will find ICANN’s reaction to the comments the SOP submitted in June.
And a frustrating summary, it is.
Two examples of what you will come across reading the document:
·
On our comment that the FY 14 ops Plan & Budget lacks measurable goals (a comment that was widely echoed by the community
during the Durban meeting and that we have made repeatedly in the past), ICANN reacts with the statement that “metrics and deliverables are continuously being developed”. I can only qualify that as a silly response: how can the budget and ops plan have been
approved (last month) if deliverables and metrics are still being developed?
·
On our comment that the rationale behind a 23.8% increase in expenses for ICANN operations has to be clarified, the reaction
is a two sentence reference to a new strategic planning process. Which comes not even close to a rationale..
It is quite clear to me that we as SOP WG spend more brainpower and time on our comments, than ICANN spends on its reaction. Faced with
that conclusion, I cannot help wondering if there’s any point in continuing to call on you all to spent that brainpower and time on future ICANN Ops Plans, Budgets and Strategic Plans.
I intend to send Xavier a message containing roughly the above, but would welcome your thoughts first.
Cheers, Roelof
PS: for your information, I also attach the approved FY14 Plan and Budget
From:
community-finance-bounces@icann.org [mailto:community-finance-bounces@icann.org]
On Behalf Of ICANN-Controller
Sent: donderdag 5 september 2013 18:35
To: Xavier J. Calvez; community-finance@icann.org;
jcurran@arin.net;
dmaher@pir.org; Maya S. Reynolds; pdiaz@pir.org; Drazek, Keith; Adams, Michael D.; Gomes, Chuck; Julie Hedlund;
chris@andalucia.com;
tonyarholmes@btinternet.com; Elisa Cooper; Paul Wilson; Lynn Gravel; Byron Holland
Cc: Susie Johnson; ICANN-Controller; Anjali Vaswani
Subject: [community-finance] FY14 Draft Operating Plan & Budget - Report of Public Comments
Dear SO/AC/SG Leaders and ICANN Finance Community Members,
We are pleased to announce that the revised Report of Public Comment has been posted. This revision includes replies
to comments received during the initial public comment period as well as the period during which the public comments were re-opened to allow for comments on the budget revisions presented in Durban. Please visit the following link to review the report.
http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/op-budget-fy14-10may13-en.htm
Regards,
ICANN Finance Team