Re: [nc-budget] NAMES COUNCIL BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING MATERIALS
Roger,
To complete your materials and situation, this is an update
of Diane Schroeder wire order given on 12 Dec 2001
for two AFNIC invoices:
1. 1800 USD for October 2001
2. 30000 USD for 6 months - April to September 2001
Today (19 Dec 2001) AFNIC bank account has been credited with
6800 USD which correspond to October 2001 invoice for 1800 USD
and partial payment of (2).
The recap of AFNIC+GLEN invoices is attached (XLS file).
I am sure we will receive more details about the DNSO recap.xls file
about the NC Expenses, which appears as this, and are a little unclear:
Expense Breakdown
Secretariat Expenses $ 34 126,00
Webcasting (Yokohama) $ 11 700,00
Computer Consultant $ 6 800,00
Scribing $ 3 047,84
$ 55 673,84
I understand the administrative matter labelled "Service contract" is with
Glen de Saint Gery and AFNIC.
Best,
Elisabeth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cochetti, Roger" <RCochetti@verisign.com>
To: "Nc-Budget (E-mail)" <nc-budget@dnso.org>
Cc: "DC Administration" <DCAdministration@verisign.com>; "Glen deSaintGery
(E-mail)" <Gcore@wanadoo.fr>; "Glen De Saint Gery (E-mail)"
<gcore@wanadoo.fr>; "Louis Touton (E-mail)" <touton@icann.org>; "'Bryan
Evans'" <bevans@interaccess.com>; "'Diane Schroeder'" <schroeder@icann.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: [nc-budget] NAMES COUNCIL BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING MATERIALS
> This is to confirm the teleconference meeting of the Names Council Budget
> Committee scheduled for 8:00 -- 9:30 AM EST on Wednesday 19, December and
to
> provide background materials for it.
>
> I propose five items for our agenda. My notes on the agenda follow:
>
> 1) Current financial report
> 2) Issues associated with current financial reports
> a) How to credit Constituency payments (oldest vs newest debts)
> b) Request from Registrar Constituency for a refund
> c) Notices to DNSO Constituencies for failure to pay dues
> 3) Four outstanding invoices from Glen de Saint Gery and AFNIC for 2002
> services (see attached note)
> 4) Administrative Matters
> a) Service contract with Glen de Saint Gery
> b) Payments previously authorized
> c) AFNIC intellectual property issues
> 5) 2002 DNSO Budget
>
> First, attached you will find a current financial statement for the DNSO.
> Please note that it continues to use the previous practice of crediting
DNSO
> Constituencies' payments to the newest --as opposed to the oldest-- debt
to
> the DNSO. Although we have not addressed this issue one way or another,
it
> seemed to me that for constituency, we should continue to view financial
> reports formatted in this manner until we decide whether payments should
be
> credited to the oldest or the newest debt to the DNSO.
>
> Second, these tables reflect a payment of $28,107.14 by the Registrars
> Constituency to the DNSO for 2001 dues (vs an assessment of $15,371.00)
> Representatives of the Registrar Constituency have advised the Committee
> that the $28,107.14 payment reflects an error and that they would like the
> Council to refund $12,736.14 to them (see attached exchange of notes
between
> me and Bryan Evans.) Registrar Constituency representatives indicate that
> the larger amount includes payments from individual registrars to the DNSO
> Registrar Constituency itself along with Constituency dues payments to
> ICANN. The situation is complicated by three considerations, however:
>
> 1) ICANN management indicates that it has no agreement with
> individual registrars or the Registrar Constituency for ICANN
> management to collect and administer registrar dues payments to the
> Registrar Constituency. Thus, they must assume that any payments
> that they receive from registrars for the DNSO are intended for the DNSO
> itself. Thus, ICANN management takes the view that it has no authority
> to withhold any funds apparently received for the DNSO and they
> require the Names Council to give them some guidance on this; and
>
> 2) While representatives of the Registrar Constituency represent to
> us without qualification that the funds that ICANN management has
> received from registrars are partly intended for the Registrar
Constituency,
> these funds were actually paid by individual registrars and we have no
> direct indication of the intent of how the funds should be used from each
> paying registrar; and
>
> 3) The Council established a precedent in 2000 that funds mistakenly
> paid by a Constituency to the DNSO would not be refunded to that
> Constituency, but rather would be credited by the DNSO to future dues
> payments from that Constituency.
>
> Consequently, we need to decide how we should respond to the request from
> the Registrar Constituency.
>
> Third, we have a few administrative items to address with ICANN
management,
> including the status of
>
> 1) the ICANN contract (on behalf of the DNSO) with Glen De Saint
> Gery
> 2) payments authorized by the Names Council
> 3) the intellectual property rights provisions of the 2000 AFNIC
> arrangement (see attached e-mail from Louis Touton)
>
> To help us address these items, I have asked Louis Touton to join the call
> from 8:30 AM EST until around 9:00 EST.
>
> Fourth, we need to complete work on the DNSO's 2002 budget. In this
> context, I attach a revised proposal for a 2002 DNSO budget that is based
> informal conversations with Committee members. Among many others, two
> factors need to be considered when we take this item up:
>
> 1) ICANN management has advised us that they believe that it is
> prudent and necessary for the DNSO to plan on always having a minimum
> cash reserve in its accounts of $30,000. Moreover in part because of
> concerns over their own possible liability for DNSO financial
> obligations, ICANN management has advised us that if the DNSO accounts
were
> planned to go below $30,000 or actually did go below $30,000, then ICANN
> management would exercise its option to terminate its administration of
> the funds for the DNSO. Under these circumstances, since our 2002 budget
> would normally be designed to be fully spent by year-end, if we do not
> add a $30,000 "permanent reserve" into our requirements for 2002, then we
> would probably fall below ICANN management's minimum cash reserve
> requirements sometime around August 2002. Based on ICANN management's
> notice to us, unless we add this "permanent reserve" to the 2002 DNSO
> budget, they apparently reserve the right to terminate their
> administrative relationship with us at any time without further notice.
For
> this reason, my attached 2002 budget proposal now includes a new item of
> a $30,000 "permanent reserve"; and
>
> 2) The Names Council at its last meeting approved a resolution
> requesting that ICANN appropriate from its 2002-2003 funds $170,000 to
> cover the operating expenses of the DNSO for 2002. We have no reaction or
> response from ICANN management or the ICANN Board on this request, other
> than an acknowledgement of it. Consequently, I believe that we have
> no alternative other than to proceed on the assumption that Names
Council's
> request is not agreed to and to develop a 2002 DNSO budget of our
> own. Obviously, if ICANN accepts the Names Council's request, we will
have
> to alter our course at that time.
>
> I have asked Louis Touton to be available to answer any questions on ICANN
> management's notice to us on the need for a $30,000 permanent reserve and,
> to the extent that he can, comment on the status of ICANN management and
> Board review of the Names Council request for a $170,000 ICANN
appropriation
> to the DNSO during their 2002-2003 budget year.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger Cochetti
> Chair
> Names Council Budget Committee
>
>
>
> Roger J. Cochetti
> Senior Vice-President & Chief Policy Officer
> VeriSign
> (202) 973-6600
> rcochetti@verisign.com
>
>
> PROPOSED DNSO 2002 BUDGET (1 January 2002 -- 31 December 2002)
>
> =======================================================================
>
>
> Current funds $144K
>
> Rough Commitments Against Current Funds Through EOY 2001
>
> AFNIC '00 $59K
> AFNIC '01 $40K
> Other $ 4K
> TOTAL $103K
>
> Projected surplus of Funds at Year-End 2001 $41K
>
> =======================================================================
>
> PROJECTED DNSO EXPENSES IN 2002: MINIMUM
>
> Secretariat (including AFNIC) $70K
>
> Connectivity $10 K
>
> Telephone $15K
>
> Secretariat Travel $15K
>
> Misc $30K
>
> Permanent Reserve $30K
>
>
> TOTAL $170K
>
> LESS 2001 CARRYOVER -$41K
>
> ADDITIONAL FUNDS NEEDED $129K
>
> PER CONSTITUENCY (7) $18.4K
>
>
> POTENTIAL ADDED EXPENSES
>
> Partial Staff Support $50K
> ($7.2K/Constituency)
>
> Web casting $50K
>
> Translation Services $50K
>
> Full Staff Support $120K
> ($17.1K/Constituency)
>
>
>
>
DNSOSEC.GLEN-AFNIC-invoices-summary.xls
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