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<p>It's a good letter and (and as an observer) I support its rapid
transmission to the Board.</p>
<p>Best, Kathy<br>
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the comment with enough time for members of the Board to be able
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<div>we have till today 23:59UTC. If you have any objection or
comment, if there is none, the letter will be sent.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Le lun. 28 mai 2018 à 18:18, Rafik Dammak
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<div>Thanks, Ayden, asking everyone to do the review
quickly.<br>
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<div>I also think the letter should be shared in
NCSG list for info.<br>
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<div>Best,<br>
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<div>Thanks Rafik, good point. I pretty much
copied and pasted your text into the letter:<br>
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<div>Sorry not to get this prepared sooner,
but can everyone please review it and
suggest edits? The Board is set to review
the Budget on 30 May so would be great to
get this out tomorrow - or Tuesday at the
very latest - if there is PC support. Thanks
very much!<br>
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<div>I think we point that without
fixing that issue we will face the
same problems in next years and
there is no so much left to cut
from whatever support directed to
the community. the issue is not
just the new fiscal year budget
but a whole structural change in
ICANN for the coming years with
regard to human resources e.g.
resizing gradually. redeployment
is one suggestion as we can
reallocate staff to the areas of
high priority like policy.<br>
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<div>Thanks all for the comments. I'll
work on a new letter on this topic
tonight, and we'll need to review
this quickly, as it is on the Board
agenda for 30 May. <br>
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<div>The HR point is difficult because
I do take Xavier's response that the
growth there is because the
community directed the organisation
to undertake certain activities.
Sure, we never said hire staff to
undertake these activities, but I
guess it was implied. And salaries
rising 2% (broadly in line with
inflation) is not unreasonable. Will
need to think about how we address
this, i.e. re-deploy staff
vertically?<br>
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<div>thanks, Ayden for the
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<div>I think with regard to the
letter to board we should focus
on important and big issues on
the budget as the cuts are not
addressing the structural and
systemic issues i.e. big part of
the budget is for human
resources. I think we can make a
better argument by highlighting
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<div>the budget approval is
scheduled for next week.<br>
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<div>Best,<br>
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<div>Is there any point in
writing a new letter, this
time to the Board before
it adopts the new Budget,
asking that they kindly
consider reinstating CROP
to 100% of its original
size (cost implications -
extra $50,000), increase
ABR envelope modestly to
include support for the
IGF as has been the case
in the past (conditional
on workshop acceptance; we
do use this resource very
well, and it can't cost
more than $10,000 for the
entire GNSO), and expand
the Council Strategic
Planning Session from 2
days to 3 days (cost
implication, I'd guess max
$5,000 for 1 extra night
hotel + per diem for 21
people) in recognition of
the fact that the
Intersessional has been
discontinued so the agenda
will be more packed than
usual?<br>
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