RE: [nc-budget] DNSO BUDGET
Philip-
Thanks
for a thoughtful and thorough job on drafting a budget for the DNSO. Of
course in trying to address this topic, we have two core
obstacles:
First, we have not yet established how
much of the roughly $72,000 already collected during 1999 and 2000 by ICANN
from mandatory DNSO Constituency fees is available for future spending.
AFNIC pointed out during the last BC meeting that it believes that it has a
senior claim against DNSO resources as compensation for the services that
AFNIC has provided to the DNSO. We've asked AFNIC to prepare an invoice
for past services and a monthly forecast for future services;
and
Second, we have no way of estimating how much we will
collect from voluntary donations.
Given
this much uncertainty, my concept has been that we would confine our budget
planning activities to the funds that are actually available in the
ICANN-administered account (i.e. the $72K), so we don't wind up spending a
lot of time allocating funds that don't exist. If we take this approach,
then we'll need to await a conclusion to the AFNIC-related past-expense
questions before we can begin to authorize future expenses.
In the
meantime, I think proposals like yours are both helpful and very much needed
because they will force us to think about where resources should go once they
are in hand. For example, you allocate resources to office rent, whereas I
had assumed that we would retain a consultant and either an individual
consultant or a consulting firm would provide their own office
space.
To
promote this kind of substantive discussion, could you provide a brief
explanation of your major categories of proposed spending and the priority that
you would attach to them?
Thanks
again,
Roger
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