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Re: [ga] Austerity measures


Jonathan:

>          My understanding is that the NC is indeed planning on entertaining
> bids to outsource the *entire* secretariat function to a new provider;
yes. this is true, but also as far as I understand, we continue with AFNIC
until June 30 and they will be payed.

> Erica has announced plans to hire an outside consultant to write an RFP,
> and to rank respondents against the RFP's selection criteria.  It's hard to
> figure out how much of AFNIC's charges for the secretariat function can be
> attributed to mailing lists alone;
AFNIC for the year 2000 charged to DNSO almost $34000.00 only in internet
services without taking in count the conectivity to Internet.  And this
figure is only for part-time staff!!!

> FWIW, here is a copy of the secretariat
> expenditures and services for 2000 (from
> <http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/2000.AFNIC-DNSO.html>).  It seems sort of
> odd that, in looking for places in this budget to save money, one would
> pounce first on existing GA mailing lists.
Yes...it is very odd and ilogical since the managing of the mailing list,
with a little effort is done.

Best Regards
Vany


> >AFNIC expenditures for the DNSO services for FY 2000
> >
> >AFNIC has been following the overall budget expenses as voted by the Names
> >Council during its March meeting.
> >
> >     EXPENDITURES
> >   1
> >     Personnel
> >                                                             34 000
> >     Webmaster (engineer part time)
> >                                                    24 000
> >     Technical support (part time)
> >                                                     6 000
> >     Temporary staff, help for 2 months of voting for ICANN
> >     Board
> >                                                     4 000
> >     Secretariat (part time, consultant, real cost USD 60 000)
> >                                                   (offered)
> >   2
> >     Offices and Equipment
> >                                                              2 000
> >     Office rental and office running (real cost for 70 sq meters
> >     is USD 25 000, AFNIC rented offices for his own staff in
> >     central Paris to keep place available for DNSO service)
> >                                                   (offered)
> >     PC desktop equipment purchase, software and hardware
> >                                                     2 000
> >   3
> >     Security, backup, connectivity
> >                                                             13 000
> >     Hosting dnso.org server in secure building, supervision,
> >     local and remote backups
> >                                                     5 000
> >     Connectivity to the Internet (real cost for 2 Mb/s is USD
> >     25 000, supported by Renater)
> >                                                     8 000
> >   4
> >     External professional services
> >                                                              3 000
> >     Legal advice
> >                                                     3 000
> >   5
> >     Telephone
> >                                                              1 800
> >     Dial up from home (USD 90 per month)
> >                                                     1 080
> >     Business running (USD 60 per month)
> >                                                       720
> >   6
> >     Secretariat Teleconferences (NC and committees)
> >                                                                600
> >     from office/home (USD 30 per telecon)
> >                                                       360
> >     when on travels (USD 120 per telecon)
> >                                                       240
> >   7
> >     Travels to ICANN meetings
> >                                                              5 000
> >     (Cairo NC+GA, Yokohama NC+GA, Marina del Rey
> >     GA: real cost USD 12 220)
> >                                                     5 000
> >     Total Expenditure, Capital Equipment
> >                                                             59 400
> >
> >
> >The services provided to the DNSO includes:
> >
> >Service to the NC
> >
> >      agendas/summaries/communication in between meetings
> >      NC membership maintenance (addresses, phones any other means for
> > contact)
> >      NC e-mail list (maintaining, archiving, publishing)
> >      design and implementation of the NC voting system
> >      NC annual selection to the ICANN Board
> >
> >Service to the GA
> >
> >      maintaining, archiving and publishing mailing lists (in various
> > formats)
> >      publishing GA documents on the dnso.org website
> >      creating and maintaining the DNSO GA membership database (including
> > constituencies members; necessary to have the DNSO votes)
> >      adapting the NC voting system to the DNSO GA voting system
> >      attending and reporting to GA meetings
> >      day to day work with GA Chairs
> >
> >Service to the Working Groups and Committees
> >
> >      maintaining, archiving and publishing mailing lists
> >      publishing Working Groups documents
> >      setting up lists for comments
> >
> >General service for the DNSO
> >
> >      dnso.org web site concept and design
> >      dnso.org web site maintenance, with appropriate links to items of
> > interests to the DNSO
> >      developping scripts and publishing statistics
> >      help desk, round clock service by email or telephone; FAQs
> >      hiring and training temporary staff to execute their responsibilities
> >      search for independent offices
> >      search of sponsors for offices and services
> >      work with ICANN staff, receiving ICANN staff and President
> >      receiving European ICANN Board members
> >      conducting communication with European ICANN partners attending
> > Brussels meetings, WIPO, GAC
> >      conducting communication and liaison with Constituencies secretariats
> >      publicizing and promoting documents, contact with press
> >
> >Buildings, hardware, software, administrative work
> >
> >      Office rental, office running
> >      Computers and printers for the staff
> >      Telephone lines and fax
> >      Connectivity to the Internet
> >      Offices security service
> >      Network and operating systems security service
> >      Backup service, with the dnso.org mirroring on a distant site
>
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