Good morning,
I don’t think it is in the capacity of the finance department
to decide on or even to orient the use of the new gTLD program incomes. The
Financial department has a technical role of establishing a budget according to
inputs from everywhere. The discussion about where or how to spend the “surplus”
should be done with the board whose finance committee decides on everything
concerning money in ICANN.
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Tijani BEN JEMAA
Executive Director
Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (FMAI)
Phone: + 216 41 649 605
Mobile: + 216 98 330 114
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[mailto:community-finance-bounces@icann.org] De la part de Tim Switzer
Envoyé : samedi 1 juin 2013 13:22
À : Gomes, Chuck
Cc : Maher, David; jcurran@arin.net; community-finance@icann.org
Objet : Re: [community-finance] Durban Public Finance Session
Thanks Taryn for your note and to Chuck for his comments.
In my capacity as a New gTLD Applicant, current Treasurer of
NTAG and as of July 1st, Chair of the NTAG, I would like to echo Chuck's
comments specifically as it relates to the New gTLD Program budget. This
is obviously a very large amount of money and an important topic that would
seem to warrant its own session in Durban. Both from the standpoint of
having the Community hear where and how the money is being spent / forward
looking projections as well as what should be done with what is likely to be a
pretty size-able surplus. The process to determine what to do with the
surplus should be kicked off for Community input sooner than later and there is
no better time and place to do that than in Durban. I look forward to the
discussions - thanks.
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Gomes, Chuck <cgomes@verisign.com>
wrote:
Please see my comments below.
Chuck
From: Taryn S.
Presley [mailto:taryn.presley@icann.org]
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 1:37 PM
To: community-finance@icann.org;
jcurran@arin.net; Maher,
David; 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: Xavier J. Calvez; Ken Redhead; Janice Douma Lange; Maya S. Reynolds
Subject: Durban Public Finance Session
All:
In preparation for the Durban Public Finance Session (tentatively
scheduled for Wednesday July 17, 2013 11:00AM), we are soliciting your feedback
on items to be included in the agenda. The following have been identified
as potential agenda items:
· FY14 Draft Budget
o SO/ AC
Requests – overall results and implementation approach [Chuck Gomes] This
might be better handled in SO/AC meetings if possible, especially with regard
to specific SO/AC items.
o Public
comments overview – address major areas of focus/ concern[Chuck Gomes] I
think that quite a bit of time should be allotted for this to address comments
of major importance. This could be handled more efficiently if there are
informative responses to public comments posted in advance of the Durban
meeting; then the time in this session could be used to address follow-up
questions.
o Review
budget development process improvement– post mortem on FY14 budget
process and next steps for FY15 budget process*[Chuck
Gomes] I believe it is important
to make clear that we were unable to implement improvements in the process as
planned this time around but that it will change significantly for FY15 so that
there is adequate detail presented early enough for there to be changes made
before Board action. I doubt that more than 5 minutes should be needed
for this, assuming that WG will deal with this in more detail.
· Future Financial Reporting
o FY13
Actual vs. FY13 Budget and FY12 Actual w/ variance analysis – to be
published by the Buenos Aires meeting[Chuck
Gomes] Are these mainly
information items? If so, I would think that they could communicated in
relatively short order.
o Quarterly
public reporting – format/ content currently under review with the BFC[Chuck Gomes] Is
this also mainly informational? If so, it could also be communicated in a
few minutes.
· New gTLD Program Update**[Chuck
Gomes] It seems to me that
this needs to be discussed in a separate session because it could easily absorb
most of the 90 minutes considering how focused everyone will be on this.
* Similar to last year, we would like to form a working group to
help formulate a better process for the development of the FY15 budget; one
that allows more interaction with the community. In preparation for this,
we would like the community’s feedback on having a separate 60
minute “kickoff” session to discuss budget development process
improvement. The purpose of this session will be to define the
working group goals and gain consensus on the best approach to facilitate the
working group (calls/ webinars/ etc.).[Chuck
Gomes] Good idea. Will
it be possible to find a 60 minute block without serious conflicts? If
not, it may need to be handled in a conference call soon after Durban.
**The New gTLD program update may be included in the New gTLD
Session rather than the Public Finance Session.[Chuck
Gomes] Will there be enough
time in the New gTLD Session? It may take a lot of time because of the
state of new gTLDs and everyone’s focus on them.
Will you please provide your feedback on the above agenda items as
well as items not listed that you feel should be addressed during the
session? We will consider all recommendations, however given the 90
minute timeframe (including Q&A) all may not be included in the final
agenda.
Will you also please provide feedback on having the 60 minute budget
development process improvement “kickoff” meeting?[Chuck Gomes] See
above.
Thank you in advance for your strong support.
Best regards,
Taryn
Taryn
Presley
Manager,
FP&A
ICANN
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