RE: [nc-budget] NAMES COUNCIL BUDGET COMMITTEE DRAFT REPORT TO NAMES COUNCIL

["Cochetti, Roger" <rogerc@netsol.com>]

Thanks for the quick comment Phillip.

I evidently recall a more detailed discussion than you on how the funds in
the ICANN administered account should be allocated (maybe a reason why we
could use a recording secretary).  Anyway, the purpose of these two items
was less to evaluate every facet of the duties of a recording secretary or
an outside Web service vendor than to allocate an up-to amount that is
authorized to be spent on them.  Typically, that type of not to exceed
allocation requires a lot less detail than for example an outright contract
amount might.

Anyway, if others share your concern, I have no difficulty withdrawing these
items and we can take them up at a near term Budget Committee meeting in a
more comprehensive way.  I suspect, however, that the Council will be asked
to deal with an allocation for a recording secretary at its next meeting; so
it would be nice to have some Budget Committee input into that discussion. 

Recommending allocations from the existing DNSO budget is an important part
of our charter so we'll need to get on with it or the Council will simply
act without our recommendations.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Sheppard [mailto:philip.sheppard@aim.be]
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:52 AM
To: Cochetti, Roger; 'Elisabeth Porteneuve'; nc-budget@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [nc-budget] NAMES COUNCIL BUDGET COMMITTEE DRAFT REPORT TO
NAMES COUNCIL


Roger,
your bullets points are fine except the last two items. Both these go beyond
what we agreed or even recommended during the Budget Committee
teleconference and I cannot support them at this stage. I propose there
deletion.

Recording secretary
The principle of a recording secretary needs to be discussed.
The objective has not been made explicit.
The added value has not been made explicit.
The implications for the understandability and communication value of NC
meeting summaries when written by a legally oriented author has not been
discussed.
The implications of accountability/ownership of an NC summary as a result of
having two individuals (a DNSO secretary and a recording secretary) have not
been discussed.

Budget for web services
I have no problem with the idea of trying to put a ceiling on costs but an
arbitrary recommendation on one item seems premature and potentially
duplication of the budget presented by afnic some months ago. If we are to
make a budget recommendation lets do so based on the whole budget having
resolved the two funds issue. It is too piecemeal otherwise.

Philip