ICANN budget preparation for
2002
Whereas ICANN has invited the Names Council to comment on
its 2002 budget,
Whereas,
1. The request below follows the earlier NC resolution
requesting ICANN funding of 11 April 2001.
2. The request below follows a resolution of the General
Assembly of May 28, 2001:
"The
General Assembly of the DNSO hereby petitions the ICANN Board to fund the DNSO
and all other ICANN Supporting Organizations with funding adequate for the
operation and administration of such Supporting Organizations (all monies
donated to be allocated and disbursed from ICANN central accounts). The
General Assembly of the DNSO further asks for formal inclusion in the overall
ICANN Budgetary process."
3. There is support in the
At-Large SC 2001 report for funding of the SOs.
4. Constituencies waste considerable time on fund raising
activities, taking away time from DNSO policy advise to the
Board.
5. 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constituency is on a time line to have its votes withdrawn) and this division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.
6. The DNSO is a central part of the ICANN process and
the most political/ media exposed of the SOs.
7. 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.
The Names Council therefore resolves to request that ICANN
allocate a sum of USD 170,000 in its 2002 budget and an equivalent sum
annually thereafter for the provision of secretariat services to the
DNSO.