Re: [nc-budget] FINAL DRAFT REPORT OF THE NAMES COUNCIL BUDGET COMMITTEE ON AFNIC INVOICE AND PROPOSED 2001 BUDGET

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i am very comfortable with the draft report

ken stubbs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>
To: "'Cochetti, Roger'" <rogerc@netsol.com>; "'DNSO budget'"
<nc-budget@dnso.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 3:38 PM
Subject: RE: [nc-budget] FINAL DRAFT REPORT OF THE NAMES COUNCIL BUDGET
COMMITTEE ON AFNIC INVOICE AND PROPOSED 2001 BUDGET


> I may miss the teleconf-
>
> I approve this draft
>
> Peter de Blanc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nc-budget@dnso.org [mailto:owner-nc-budget@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Cochetti, Roger
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:28 PM
> To: 'DNSO budget'
> Subject: [nc-budget] FINAL DRAFT REPORT OF THE NAMES COUNCIL BUDGET
> COMMITTEE ON AFNIC INVOICE AND PROPOSED 2001 BUDGET
>
>
>
> > ICANN DOMAIN NAME SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION (DNSO) NAMES COUNCIL BUDGET
> > COMMITTEE
> >
> > TO THE ICANN DNSO NAMES COUNCIL
> >
> > JANUARY 2001
> >
> > During October, November, and January, the Names Council Budget
Committee
> > met four times to address, among other things, two important questions:
> > (1) What obligations, if any, does the DNSO have to AFNIC, which
provided
> > administrative support to the DNSO and the Names Council during 2000?;
and
> > (2) What should be the DNSO budget for 2001?
> >
> > AFNIC PAYMENT
> >
> > The Committee met with AFNIC on several occasions to clarify AFNIC's
view
> > of the DNSO's financial obligations to AFNIC and requested that AFNIC
> > provide the Committee with an itemized statement of funds that AFNIC
> > believes are due to it for services rendered by AFNIC to the DNSO during
> > 2000.  AFNIC's representative explained that AFNIC had provided support
> > services to the DNSO during 1999 at no charge, but that it had advised
the
> > DNSO that any services provided by AFNIC to the DNSO during 2000 would
> > require some compensation (AFNIC states that it does not seek full
> > commercial compensation for the services that it provided to the DNSO in
> > 2000; only partial compensation.)
> >
> > The Committee requested a statement from AFNIC by 30 November 2000 for
> > services provided by AFNIC to the DNSO from January through November
2000.
> > This Statement can be found at
> > http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/2000.AFNIC-DNSO.html . It indicates that
> > the amount due to AFNIC from the DNSO is US $59,400.00.
> >
> > The Committee examined the AFNIC statement in some detail an concluded
> > that the full amount of the Statement should be paid by the DNSO to
AFNIC,
> > subject to three conditions:
> >
> > (1) AFNIC provides the Committee with a clear statement that describes
the
> > intellectual property rights that the DNSO has acquired by virtues of
the
> > services provided by AFNIC to the DNSO during 2000; and
> >
> > (2) AFNIC provides the Committee with an estimated allocation of the
> > $59,400 among the various elements of the DNSO (Names Council, General
> > Assembly, etc.); and
> >
> > (3) AFNIC agrees to continue to support the DNSO at the same level that
it
> > supported the DNSO during 2000, at no additional charge, for no more
than
> > three months beyond 1 January 2001 to permit the DNSO to properly
procure
> > support services for itself.
>
> AFNIC has verbally indicated their acceptance of the third condition
> and not yet responded to the first two.
>
> > The Committee recommends that the Council adopt this approach and so
> > authorize the payment to AFNIC.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2001 DNSO BUDGET
> >
> > As indicated in the attached note to the Committee from ICANN
management,
> > as of 6 December 2000, the DNSO had received a cumulative $95,500 in
> > payments from DNSO Constituencies during 1999 and 2000.  In addition to
> > this amount, various DNSO constituencies have indicated that they would
be
> > providing additional payments against their dues fairly soon.  Whatever
> > the amount collected, if the Budget Committee recommendation of a
$59,400
> > DNSO payment to AFNIC is accepted (along with modest payments already
made
> > to the Berkman Center for services provided to the DNSO), this would
leave
> > a balance in the DNSO account of around $35,000 plus any additional
funds
> > collected after 6 December 2000.  These excess funds could obviously be
> > applied to DNSO expenses in 2001.
> >
> > In addition, as noted in previous Budget Committee reports to the
Council,
> > the Committee is in the process of structuring a "voluntary fund" that
> > would be independently administered and that would be used to finance
the
> > cost of providing professional support services to the DNSO.  When this
> > voluntary fund is established, donations may be made to it and VeriSign
> > Global Registry Services has indicated that it would match all donations
> > made to this fund up to $100,000.
> >
> > As a result of the above, the Committee concluded that it would
construct
> > a proposed DNSO 2001 budget based on the assumptions that there would be
> > at least a $35,000 carry over of funds from 2000 to 2001 and that the
> > voluntary fund that is planned would come into operation and it would be
> > used to cover the costs of professional support for the DNSO in 2001.
> > Consequently, the Committee's budget analysis assumes that no funds from
> > the regular budget are allocated for professional support and that in
> > setting 2001 dues for the DNSO constituencies, a roughly $35,000
beginning
> > DNSO balance should be presumed at 1 January 2001.
> >
> > Using these assumptions, the Committee proposes an expense budget for
the
> > DNSO for 2001 of $107,600, consisting of the following general
categories
> > of expense and the reservation of the $35,000 in unused funds from 2000
> > for contingency spending in 2001:
> >
> > Administrative $12,000
> > Telecommunications $18,100
> > Travel $25,500
> > Web/Listserv Maintenance $30,000
> > Web casting $0
> > Language Translations $10,000
> Professional Services $12,000
>
>
> > In particular, the Committee notes that it is assuming that there is
> > professional support staff for the DNSO during 2001 and that it has
> > budgeted no funds for Web casting.
> >
> > If this $107,600  expense budget is accepted, then the dues payment by
> > each of the seven DNSO Constituencies during 2001 would be $15,371.
> >
> >
> CONSEQUENCES OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUES BY CONSTITUENCIES
>
> The Committee has considered the issue of consequences of the
> non-payment of dues by DNSO Constituencies and believes that a graduated
> system of actions should be put in place that would be based on the
duration
> of the arrearage.  Specific ideas will be discussed at the Council
meeting.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Roger J. Cochetti
> > Senior Vice President-Policy
> > VeriSign/Network Solutions, Inc.
> > rogerc@netsol.com <mailto:rogerc@netsol.com>
> > (703) 326-2585
> >
>