To clear up this loose end, I received additional information from Denise (below), which gives a little more detail on the way that the budgets are organised. You may recall that rather than providing discrete budget lines for each department, ICANN appears to budget on a contribution basis, so that support functions (eg legal, finance, communications) have their spend distributed around the operational departments (new gTLDs, compliance).

The additional information came too late for analysis and inclusion in the final report, but my proposal is that we publish it as part of Appendix B, and include an announcement on the call for public comment which draws attention to the new item.

Emily

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From: Denise Michel <denise.michel@icann.org>
Date: 8 May 2012 20:04
Subject: Additional budget details
To: Emily Taylor <emily@emilytaylor.eu>

Hi, Emily.

My apologies for the delay on these additional numbers. Attached is the FY11 Functional Report for the Compliance activities. The report includes aggregate numbers for the major expense categories we discussed -- Personnel, Travel, Professional Services and Administration. The report shows data for the FY11 Actual, the FY11 Budget, and the variance between the two. Note that approximately 5-10% of the following department budgets are used for compliance-related activities and are reflected in the attached as "Other dept. allocation": Operations, IT, Legal, Registrar, Registry, Overhead.

If you have any question please let me know.

Regards,

Denise

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