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RE: [nc-budget] DNSO costs


Will do.
 

Roger J. Cochetti
Senior Vice President & Chief Policy Officer
VeriSign
rcochetti@verisign.com
202-973-6600

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Sheppard [mailto:philip.sheppard@aim.be]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 9:00 AM
To: NC budget
Subject: [nc-budget] DNSO costs

Roger and the budget committee,
could you include this on your next meeting agenda? I would like comments and/or approval of the following draft text which would go to Stuart Lynn to assist in his preparations for the ICANN 2002 budget.
Philip.
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Stuart,
ICANN budget preparation for 2002
 
You will recall that previously in 2001 we asked ICANN to finance the costs of DNSO secretariat support and that the Finance Committee declined as the budget had been set for the year 2001.
 
In order to be in time for the budget 2002 I would like to make the request again and provide further information.
 
1. The request follows an earlier NC resolution.
2. There is support in the ALSC 2001 report for central funding.
3. Constituencies waste considerable time on fund raising activities, taking away time from DNSO policy advise to the Board.
4. Fees cause division in the DNSO (eg the non comm constituency is on a time line to have its votes withdrawn) and this division is counterproductive to achieving policy consensus.
5. The DNSO is a central part of the ICANN process and the most political/ media exposed of the SOs.
6. The ICANN secretariat is about to issue contracts for the provision of professional DNSO secretariat support, so this service is already under ICANN staff control.
7. I believe there is sufficient DNSO funds to cover this service until the next ICANN budget round.
8. Based on these contracts and an estimate on travel/overtime costs we envisage an annual cost of some USD 75,000.
 
Stuart,
this is a relatively small sum as a proportion of the ICANN budget but causes relatively large acrimony to raise it in the DNSO and wastes a relatively large amount of volunteer time. Could I ask you to introduce this idea positively in the 2002 budget proposals?
 
Philip Sheppard
NC Chair


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