Dear all, The notes, recordings and transcripts for the DT-O Meeting on 23 March 2016 will be available here: https://community.icann.org/x/uyWAAw A copy of the notes and action items may be found below. Kind regards, Brenda Action Items * Action: All to review text for financial objective. * Action (Chuck/Grace): send language to CWG+Client Committee+ Bylaws Drafting team so that they can prepare draft language for inclusion in the Bylaws. Chuck will also communicate with Becky directly. Notes 1. Define the financial objective(s) for PTI * Staff provided a draft * Paul Kane provided edits * Xavier suggested to not include specific solutions (e.g. bank account) in the Bylaws. * As much as possible, Cheryl suggests avoiding a Bylaw recommendation because there is a tight timeline for the Bylaws to be drafted and submitted to NTIA. * Alan suggests "isolation" instead of "separation" or "independence" since "separation" has a loaded context in the CWG-Stewardship. * Context for Paul's edits: good practice in the UK is to pre-determine funds in the company's governing documents, as opposed to settings them aside at a later stage (which could be illegal in the UK system). * Paul: we want to make sure that the funds in the ICANN budget are specifically allocated to PTI. * Alan: Need to be able to ensure continuity of IANA operations should ICANN face extreme financial issues (bankruptcy, etc) Wording for draft financial objective: The financial objective of the IANA Functions / PTI is to provide financial stability and operational excellence. Financial stability is defined in this context as [segregated from / sufficient isolation of] the IANA Functions / PTI budget from ICANN's budget to avoid any kind of negative impact on the IANA Functions / PTI Budget as a result of changes to ICANN's budget. It furthermore is intended to capture the notion of secured funding for the IANA Functions / PTI that goes beyond one fiscal year. The objective of operational excellence in this context means that there are sufficient funds budgeted for and allocated to ensure that the IANA Functions/PTI are able to deliver operational excellence. Action: All to review text for financial objective. 2. Develop a recommendation for ensuring multi-year continuity of IANA Services funding * Paul: necessary that the affiliate body is sufficient, that staff are paid from PTI, not ICANN. * Could this by managed without a Bylaw? Chuck notes trust issues within the gTLD and ccTLD registries communities. * Cheryl prefers to not have a Bylaw as long as implementation can be designed to meet needs. Action (Chuck/Grace): send language to CWG+Client Committee+ Bylaws Drafting team so that they can prepare draft language for inclusion in the Bylaws. Chuck will also communicate with Becky directly. * Xavier: What are the requirements that need to be put in place that could acheive what a bank account could achieve, but a bank account is a pre-determined solution that skips the requirements phase of the rationale. * Xavier: There are different rules attached to an escrow account (in comparison to a bank account). * Alan: We don't want to identify the solution, we want to identify the problem/target for which we are trying to solve * Paul: Board of PTI should have control over the funding that is assigned to it by ICANN * Chuck: do we need to recommend that a task force needs to be formed to deal with the details on how to implement our objective? 3. Develop a process for development and approval of the IANA Services budget Awaiting feedback from Elise on how to involve her Team. 4. Developing a Caretaker Budget Discussion involves CCWG 5. Next meetings 20:00 UTC on Wednesday and Friday next week, Tuesday and Thursday following week Xavier is on holiday through next Tuesday