All, Just as a reminder, Ed & Staff will finalize the list of Clarifying Questions appended to this draft public comment to Finance by 23:00 UTC 15 April. Should you or the group you represent have any more to add, please send them our way so that we can add them to the list. As noted by Marika below, there will also be upcoming webinars scheduled by Finance for each SO/AC to further explain the draft FY17 Budget and ask for any additional questions. We expect those announcement to be out early next week. Thank you. B Berry A. Cobb Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers 720.839.5735 mail@berrycobb.com @berrycobb -----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Marika Konings Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 07:51 To: Mary Wong; Amr Elsadr; GNSO Council List Cc: Edward Morris Subject: Re: [council] Proposed Comment on FY17 Budget and Operating Plan To add to Mary¹s response, the objective of the discussion is also to identify any additional questions that may exist in relation to the budget documents. The Finance Team has indicated that they are open to receiving any clarifying questions which they will attempt to answer prior to the closing of the public comment period so that these can be considered as part of the development of input for the public comment forum. On the last page of the draft you will already find a number of questions that were identified by members of the small team. If there are additional questions, you are encouraged to provide these so that these can get added. The hope is that the responses to the questions as well as feedback received on the current draft will allow for finalisation of the comment via the mailing list and submission in time for the 30 April deadline. Please note that the Finance Team is also in the process of scheduling calls with the different communities that have and/or will submit comments following the close of the public comment forum to 'enhance the understanding of the comments and so improve the quality of the response' (see https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-04-12-en). Best regards, Marika On 14/04/16 08:35, "owner-council@gnso.icann.org on behalf of Mary Wong" <owner-council@gnso.icann.org on behalf of mary.wong@icann.org> wrote:
Hello Amr and everyone,
There is no motion to be voted on with respect to this topic. This was also the case last year, when the Council also submitted a comment on the FY16 Budget. The idea here is that the Council will discuss the draft that was prepared by the small team at this call, with a view toward finalizing any comments and changes via the email list subsequently but in good enough time to submit the final comment by the 30 April deadline.
FYI, while the GNSO Council will need a motion on any matter for which it is required to vote (e.g. PDP-related topics), the Council does have the ability to take action without a motion or voting on other matters. As you may recall, this has been done a number of times with respect to non-PDP and such topics for which is vote is not specifically required.
I hope this helps.
Thanks and cheers Mary
Mary Wong Senior Policy Director Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: mary.wong@icann.org Telephone: +1-603-5744889
On 4/14/16, 05:44, "owner-council@gnso.icann.org on behalf of Amr Elsadr" <owner-council@gnso.icann.org on behalf of aelsadr@egyptig.org> wrote:
Hi,
Ed, James, Carlos and KeithŠ, thank you very much for this. I can¹t imagine that getting this done was particularly easy.
I was wondering how we would be handling this on tonight¹s Council call. It is listed as an agenda item for Council approval on on the Council meeting agenda (https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Agenda+14+April+ 2016), but not listed as a motion to be voted on (https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+14+April +2016). So I¹m not entirely clear on what the outcome of this agenda item is meant to be. Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Amr
On Apr 13, 2016, at 10:19 PM, Edward Morris <egmorris1@toast.net> wrote:
My Fellow Councillors,
You will recall at our ICANN55 Council meeting, a small team (James, Carlos, Keith, myself) volunteered to formulate draft comments relating to ICANN's proposed Draft FY17 operating plan and budget. Attached you will find a starter draft of comments for the Council to consider. Track changes are enabled should any member of the Council wish to suggest edits. Please feel to do so and then send them back over the list. This small team with assistance from staff will maintain a master copy to ready for submission.
The Public Comments are due by 30 April 2016, and thus we have just over two weeks to make edits and then determine if the Council wishes to submit them. This topic is currently on the GNSO Council agenda for tomorrow. The small team also recognizes that likely all SGs & Cs will be submitting their own comments. In that regard and because we are managers of the policy process, this draft of comments attempted to only focus at a higher level of how the proposed budget impacts the GNSO and its policy development activities.
This process for submitting comments mimics what occurred last year for the FY16 draft budget. Once that draft was completed over the Council list, the comments were submitted without objection. As we will likely discuss tomorrow and based on this current experience, the Council should consider formalizing this process especially in the light of a future empowered community.
In addition to thanking James, Carlos and Keith with whom it has been a pleasure to work with, special thanks go out from all of us to Berry and Marika for their exceptional input and dedicated effort on this comment. We are extraordinarily lucky to have such fine staff assigned to help us on Council.
We looks forward to everyone's input.
Kind Regards,
Ed Morris <Budget Comment.docx>