[NCSG-PC] Fw: [Gnso-sc-budget] Where is CROP in the FY19 Budget?

Mon Feb 12 20:44:45 EET 2018

Dear Ayden,

Thanks for taken your time to explain the deliberations you had today.
Definitely a hard task when as Chair neutrality is required, so kudos to
your efforts in raising the issue, even though a lot of clarity is still
required moving on.

My suggestion  lets give Xavier and is team some time to make  clarity on
CROP, I don't want to assume yet, though communication was definitely
negligent on this issue.  However lets wait and react proper when Xavier
and team gets back to us.

Kind Regards

Poncelet

On 12 February 2018 at 19:02, Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com> wrote:

> I chaired the GNSO's Standing Committee on ICANN Budget and Operations
> call today and asked both Xavier and Becky about what happened to CROP. As
> chair the expectation is that I be neutral, and we had no other NCSG
> representatives on the call, so I could not push the importance of CROP as
> much I had hoped. If anything I think the criticism could be made, and I
> would accept it, that I was insufficiently neutral as chair in pushing for
> an answer here.
>
> There was certainly not widespread support for the continuation of CROP
> among the call participants, particularly from the contracted parties, who
> - and this was just my impression, perhaps I misunderstood them - seemed to
> me to be suggesting that it was sensible for ICANN to have cut back CROP.
> They see it as a "nice to have" rather than an "essential" piece of the
> budget. Staff comments made in the Adobe Connect room as "personal
> observations" wondered whether we would like CROP or support dedicated to
> internal capacity building, suggesting we could only have one and not both.
>
> So I do not have much more clarity just yet as to what has happened to
> CROP; the Finance department is checking to see if it was folded into a
> different budget, has been renamed, or was indeed cancelled (it seems there
> has been a lot of internal discussions in relation to CROP that the
> community was not privy to), but if it's gone, we really need to fight to
> save it. We are going to need to mobilise members in support of it...
>
> After all, if CROP can just mysteriously disappear from the Budget with no
> announcement or community consultation, what might go next?
>
> Ayden
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> On 11 February 2018 11:00 PM, Kathy Kleiman <kathy at kathykleiman.com>
> wrote:
>
> This is a real problem, and especially to do it in the dead of night
> without notice to the Community.
>
> Ayden: *would it be possible to ask ICANN Staff to give us a table of
> what's "in" and "out" from last year's budget? *It seems very fair in the
> interest of transparency.
>
> Also, I am sorry to see funding for ICANNWiki go down considerably (or was
> it eliminated completely)? I use ICANN Wiki all the time to try to remember
> someone, learn about someone and see what they've worked on in ICANN.
> ICANNWiki staff has told me they want to continue and finding funding, but
> they need some time to transition off ICANN funding. That seems very fair.
>
> Best and tx to Ayden, Kathy
>
> On 2/11/2018 1:14 PM, Ayden Férdeline wrote:
>
> I have sent the below email to the mailing list of the GNSO's Standing
> Committee on Budget and Operations. If true, and I hope I am simply
> mistaken, I will revise our (NCSG) comment on the FY19 Budget to strongly
> protest the removal of CROP from the budget. Core activities should not
> disappear without first being announced. I really hope I am wrong here...
>
> —Ayden
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> On 11 February 2018 6:58 PM, Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>
> <icann at ferdeline.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was reviewing the FY19 Budget documents and cannot seem to find where
> CROP is. In the FY18 Budget, it was a part of project ID # 151188.
>
> On the ICANN website <https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach>,
> CROP is described as being a core activity: "Following another successful
> implementation of the CROPP in FY17, the “pilot” program label has been
> removed and the activity has been moved to the Policy Development Support
> budget as part of the core activities to be coordinated by that staff in
> collaboration with the GSE team."
>
> Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place, or it has a new project ID; could
> someone please let me know where I can find CROP in the FY19 Budget? Thank
> you.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ayden Férdeline
>
>
>
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