[PC-NCSG] fw: Proposed Comment on FY17 Budget and Operating Plan

[Edward Morris]

NCSG PC colleagues,
  
  
 In anticipation of the NCSG call later today, I am forwarding the 
following which posted to the Council list a few hours ago. It and that 
which is attached is a proposed GNSO Council comment on ICANN's FY17 budget 
and operating plan which will discussed at tonight's Council meeting.
  
 I will note that public comments are due by 30 April. If we are going to 
submit an NCSG comment we should probably begin organising ourselves during 
our call today.
  
 Kind Regards,
  
 Ed
  
  

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 From: "Edward Morris" <egmorris1 at toast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 9:19 PM
To: "GNSO Council List" <council at gnso.icann.org>
Subject: Proposed Comment on FY17 Budget and Operating Plan   
  My Fellow Councillors,
 
You will recall at our ICANN55 Council meeting, a small team (James, 
Carlos, Keith, myself) volunteered to formulate draft comments relating to 
ICANN's proposed Draft FY17 operating plan and budget.  Attached you will 
find a starter draft of comments for the Council to consider.  Track 
changes are enabled should any member of the Council wish to suggest edits. 
Please feel to do so and then send them back over the list. This small team 
with assistance from staff will maintain a master copy to ready for 
submission.
 
The Public Comments are due by 30 April 2016, and thus we have just over 
two weeks to make edits and then determine if the Council wishes to submit 
them.  This topic is currently on the GNSO Council agenda for tomorrow.  
The small team also recognizes that likely all SGs & Cs will be submitting 
their own comments.  In that regard and because we are managers of the 
policy process, this draft of comments attempted to only focus at a higher 
level of how the proposed budget impacts the GNSO and its policy 
development activities.
 
This process for submitting comments mimics what occurred last year for the 
FY16 draft budget.  Once that draft was completed over the Council list, 
the comments were submitted without objection.  As we will likely discuss 
tomorrow and based on this current experience, the Council should consider 
formalizing this process especially in the light of a future empowered 
community.
  
 In addition to thanking James, Carlos and Keith with whom it has been a 
pleasure to work with, special thanks go out from all of us  to Berry and 
Marika for their exceptional input and dedicated effort on this comment. We 
are extraordinarily lucky to have such fine staff assigned to help us on 
Council.
 
We looks forward to everyone's input.
  
 Kind Regards,
  
 Ed Morris


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