Dear Community Members and Leaders,

December 5, 2017 marks the launch of the FY19 SO-AC Community Additional Budget Request process. As you know, this process pertains to a dedicated part of the overall ICANN annual budget that is set aside to fund specific requests from the community for activities that are not already included in the recurring ICANN budget.

The timeline and deliverables for the process are as follows:

Timeline	Start	End	Status
Kick off and Submission period	12/5/2017	1/31/2018	In progress
Submissions Due – send to planning@icann.org	1/31/2018	1/31/2018	On target
Preliminary review of requests by ICANN.org	2/1/2018	3/10/2018	On target
SO/AC consultations at ICANN 61 (by request, during Constituents’ Day)	3/11/2018	3/16/2018	On target
Final assessments and recommendations by ICANN.org	3/20/2018	4/14/2018	On target
ICANN Board Finance Committee Review and recommendation for approval to the Board	5/1/2018	5/1/2018	On target
ICANN Board review and approval at May Board meeting	5/15/2018	5/31/2018	On target

Action items

In preparation for the submission, please review the FY19 Community Additional Budget Requests Process page at the following link:

https://community.icann.org/display/projfinadhocws/FY19+Process+Overview

On this page, you will find the links to the following documents:

FY19 Community Additional Budget Requests Process description and timeline for the FY19 Community Additional Budget Request Process
Principles that govern ICANN’s request assessment work Principles of SO-AC Additional Budget Requests
FY19 template request form FY19 Community Requests Template

Please e-mail any questions you may have to planning@icann.org and be sure to check the Finance Community Wiki for updates.

We look forward to working with you all again on this effort for FY19.

Regards,

ICANN.org Finance Team

Becky Nash,

VP Finance

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)