Dear Empowered Community Administration members, The delivery of notice of the Board’s approval of the FY19 Operating Plan and Budget (dated 1 June 2018) initiated the 21-day Rejection Action Petition Period under the ICANN Bylaws. For this action and purpose, this Rejection Action Petition Period will end at 11.59 p.m. US Pacific time on 22 June 2018 (or 06.59 UTC on 23 June 2018). Should a rejection petition be submitted to a Decisional Participant within the petition period and should that Decisional Participant accept that petition (in accordance with its own internal rules and processes), this will trigger a further 7-day Rejection Action Petition Support Period (ending at 11.59 p.m. US Pacific time on 29 June 2018 (or 06.59 UTC on 30 June 2018), during which time that Decisional Participant will need to seek the support of at least one other Decisional Participant. If support for the petition is obtained from at least one other Decisional Participant and the requisite notice provided to the Empowered Community Administration (among others), the Bylaws provide that “ICANN shall, at the direction of the EC Administration, convene a forum at which the Decisional Participants and interested parties may discuss the Rejection Action Supported Petition”. This Community Forum must be conducted within a 21-day period beginning upon the expiration of the Rejection Action Petition Support Period – for present purposes, and assuming all of the above steps have been fulfilled, the requisite Community Forum period will commence at 11.59 p.m. US Pacific time on 29 June 2018 (06.59 UTC on 30 June 2018) and end at 11.59 p.m. US Pacific time on 20 July 2018 (06.59 UTC, 21 July 2018). Please note that Section 2.3(c) of Annex D of the Bylaws states that, “notwithstanding any statement in the Rejection Action Supported Petition, a Rejection Action Community Forum to discuss a Rejection Action Supported Petition relating to an ICANN Budget or IANA Budget may only be held at a scheduled ICANN public meeting if such Rejection Action Community Forum occurs during the Rejection Action Community Forum Period, without any extension of such Rejection Action Community Forum Period” - this means that, for the FY19 Operating Plan and Budget, any Community Forum that may need be scheduled will not take place face-to-face or at an ICANN meeting but will, instead, be conducted via remote participation methods such as teleconference, web-based meeting room and/or such other form of remote participation as the EC Administration selects” (Section 2.3(d), Annex D). Please see Annex D of the Bylaws for the full text describing all the various criteria and steps applicable to a Rejection Action process (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#annexD), including some specific criteria applicable to petitions to reject an ICANN budget. Please also do not hesitate to let me know if you or any of your community groups and members have questions about the process. Thanks and cheers Mary (for the staff team supporting the Empowered Community) From: ECAdmin <ecadmin-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of John Jeffrey <john.jeffrey@icann.org> Date: Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 05:47 To: "ecadmin@icann.org" <ecadmin@icann.org>, "chair@nro.net" <chair@nro.net>, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>, "katrina@nic.lv" <katrina@nic.lv>, Heather Forrest <haforrestesq@gmail.com>, Manal Ismail <manal@tra.gov.eg> Subject: [ECAdmin] Secretary's Notice to Empowered Community of Board Approval of FY19 Operating Plan and Budget and Secretary's Notice to Empowered Community of Board Approval of Updates to Five Year Operating Plan 2019 Greetings, Attached please find the Secretary’s Notice of Board Approval of FY19 Operating Plan and Budget and Secretary’s Notice of Board Approval of Updates to Five Year Operating Plan 2019 sent on behalf of John Jeffrey. Best, Peg -- Peg Rettino Project Specialist & Executive Assistant to John Jeffrey General Counsel and Secretary ICANN 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90094 peg.rettino@icann.org<mailto:peg.rettino@icann.org> Skype: peg.rettino Direct: 310-301-3868