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RE: [nc-budget] DNSO BUDGET


Philip-
 
Thanks for a thoughtful and thorough job on drafting a budget for the DNSO.  Of course in trying to address this topic, we have two core obstacles: 
 
 First, we have not yet established how much of the roughly $72,000 already collected during 1999 and 2000 by ICANN from mandatory DNSO Constituency fees is available for future spending.  AFNIC pointed out during the last BC meeting that it believes that it has a senior claim against DNSO resources as compensation for the services that AFNIC has provided to the DNSO.  We've asked AFNIC to prepare an invoice for past services and a monthly forecast for future services; and
 
Second, we have no way of estimating how much we will collect from voluntary donations.
 
Given this much uncertainty, my concept has been that we would confine our budget planning activities to the funds that are actually available in the ICANN-administered account (i.e. the $72K), so we don't wind up spending a lot of time allocating funds that don't exist.  If we take this approach, then we'll need to await a conclusion to the AFNIC-related past-expense questions before we can begin to authorize future expenses.
 
In the meantime, I think proposals like yours are both helpful and very much needed because they will force us to think about where resources should go once they are in hand.  For example, you allocate resources to office rent, whereas I had assumed that we would retain a consultant and either an individual consultant or a consulting firm would provide their own office space.
 
To promote this kind of substantive discussion, could you provide a brief explanation of your major categories of proposed spending and the priority that you would attach to them?
 
Thanks again,
 
Roger 
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Sheppard [mailto:philip.sheppard@aim.be]
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 11:37 AM
To: nc-budget@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [nc-budget] DNSO BUDGET

Roger and all on the Budget committee
thanks for reminding us of Ken's March budget. As I mentioned before I have been working on a more detailed and flexible first estimate based on input such as Ken's and other costs over the intervening months.
 
For discussion this is attached. The structure (black text) is perhaps the most important. It is based on the tasks identified by Chuck et al in the job description.  If we can agree to this then the actual figures (in blue) - ie salary etc and hours allocated can be changed as we think best. It is designed so that changing the bases cost automatically updates the costs per objective.
 
Hope this provides a useful start to this next step.
 
 
Philip.
 
(I will be out of the office until Nov 8).
 


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