[NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN FY15 Budget decisions of relevance to NCUC

Tue May 6 18:59:36 CEST 2014

On the admin support, this sounds like a brush-off:

"*Further to another long-running but low-level conversation, provision of
part time staff administrative support to NCSG.  "ICANN staff will provide
part-time in-kind support on a pilot basis for administrative staff support
resources to non-contracted GNSO communities (equivalent of approximately
12 hours a week of support). Funds will not be provided directly to the
community. Support will be offered on a "functional" basis and managed by
the ICANN staff (i.e., specific staff assigned to specific functions like
elections, telephone support, etc.). Staff will coordinate specific points
of contact for the community to ensure that requests for service are
provided in a timely manner.”  "

i.e. we will help to set up calls, run elections and specific tasks you ask
us for, but not offer an actual admin person to help out overall. is that
correct? Because that is pretty much where we started, and doesn't do what
we need, which is to round up specific comment response deadlines and help
us manage the process for getting input to them.

Or have I misinterpreted and they actually are offering the general admin
support we want?

Maria

On 6 May 2014 13:37, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> I asked Fahd twice about this committee and affirmed that will take
> decision. I suspect that there is misunderstanding and requested to know
> who are the contact point among ICANN staff, those listed by Amr.
> I do encourag to apply soon for those travel slots for this fiscal year
> since the new should start in July. CROPP is still pilot program and may be
> not renewed after FY15
>
> Best,
>
> Rafik
>
>
> 2014-05-06 21:32 GMT+09:00 Amr Elsadr <aelsadr at egyptig.org>:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> Yeah…, I was a bit surprised by this. I heard it from Fadh Batayneh
>> (ICANN staffer on stakeholder engagement for the ME) on the Middle East
>> Strategy Working Group list. One of the MESWG members is on that committee.
>> Just an FYI.
>>
>> Rob and Janice are both pretty helpful. I’m sure they want CROPP to work
>> out.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Amr
>>
>> On May 6, 2014, at 2:21 PM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Amr
>>
>> I have not heard anything about a Coordinating Committee that makes
>> decisions.  I thought staff does that.  I don’t think they’re too
>> restrictive, they want the program to operate.  We just haven’t asked for
>> anything.
>>
>> What I do know about is that we and other groupings were asked to
>> designate contact points for coordination with staff.  Pranesh and I are
>> listed for that
>> https://community.icann.org/display/gsecmntyrgnloutrchprgm/CROPP+Contacts
>> .
>>
>> If you have other concrete info I’m all ears.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 6, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Amr Elsadr <aelsadr at EGYPTIG.ORG> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> Regarding the CROPP; I have recently learnt that there is a CROPP
>> Coordinating Committee that is exclusively made up of ALS reps. One of this
>> committee’s mandates is to approve/reject applications. This is not
>> reflected in the process posted here:
>> https://community.icann.org/display/gsecmntyrgnloutrchprgm/Outreach+Pilot+Processing+Flow+Diagram
>>
>> Since there GNSO constituencies (as well as At-Large) are beneficiaries
>> of this program, I don’t know if you would like to see about getting NCUC
>> reps on that committee. I believe Rob Hoggarth and Janice Douma Lange are
>> the ICANN staff members responsible.
>>
>> Good luck with the rest.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Amr
>>
>> On May 6, 2014, at 1:48 PM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> From:
>> http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-30apr14-en.htm
>>
>> Approved Board Resolutions | Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board
>>
>> 30 April 2014
>>
>> Resolved (2014.04.30.07), the Board approves committing funds during FY15
>> in the amount of up to $700,000 for the SO/AC additional budget requests
>> as indicated in the attached list
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/budget-requests-fy15-30apr14-en.pdf
>>
>> We’ve done pretty well with budget requests for the next fiscal years.
>>  Some highlights:
>>
>> *Approval of the NCUC and NCSG requests for travel support for panelists
>> at the IGF, subject to MAG approval of our workshop proposals at its 20-21
>> May meeting.  Staff have added new provisos to IGF requests: "Travelers
>> must agree to produce a trip report on what the support made possible -
>> i.e., other work, mtgs. Travelers will be expected to give some support
>> time to ICANN while at the IGF meeting (e.g., booth attendance, etc.,).”
>>  I’m fine with the former, the latter raises some questions.
>>
>> *Approval of the NCSG-CSG request for another Noncontracted “House”
>> meeting, based on our 2012 meeting.
>>
>> *Further to another long-running but low-level conversation, provision of
>> part time staff administrative support to NCSG.  "ICANN staff will provide
>> part-time in-kind support on a pilot basis for administrative staff support
>> resources to non-contracted GNSO communities (equivalent of approximately
>> 12 hours a week of support). Funds will not be provided directly to the
>> community. Support will be offered on a "functional" basis and managed by
>> the ICANN staff (i.e., specific staff assigned to specific functions like
>> elections, telephone support, etc.). Staff will coordinate specific points
>> of contact for the community to ensure that requests for service are
>> provided in a timely manner.”
>>
>> *ICANN staff were pretty impressed with the positive response and big
>> turn-out at our Singapore conference, and suggested to me at the time that
>> well, if you guys can do this, maybe other parts of the community will want
>> and be able to, too.  And so lo and behold, ICANN has set aside $33,300
>> for Pre-public Meeting Seminars (odd formulation there).  More interesting
>> wording: "These types of efforts have proven to be quite useful and popular
>> to the community in the past. One ‘conference' slot and room support
>> available for an ICANN community to host a pre-Public Meeting policy
>> conference before each ICANN Public Meeting in FY15. To be developed by
>> ICANN staff based on previous NCUC (San Francisco and Singapore) model. To
>> the extent demand exceeds supply, conference slots will be initially
>> selected by lottery and rotated among community groups as appropriate.”  So
>> yes, a conference is possible before each public meeting.  Whether covered
>> travelers’ allocations would thereby be extended to allow arrival a day
>> earlier to attend is not clear.  Also not clear is whether/how soon we
>> could get something again via lottery/rotation—I suppose they’d like to
>> give a chance to others first.  Perhaps NCSG should propose something?
>>
>> *Extension for a year of the CROPP program for funding community
>> representatives’ outreach attendance at meetings within their region.  We
>> have yet to apply for any such support and should consider.
>>
>> *Regularized funding now available for print publications, should we ever
>> feel the urge.  Thus far we’ve only asked for and received money for
>> printing of our brochure (English and Spanish) and Singapore conference
>> program.  Issue papers etc. would be possible, if we could agree on doing
>> such things.
>>
>> All TBC...
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
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