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2021-10-13 Standing Committee on ICANNs Budget & Operations Planning #12

2021-10-13 Standing Committee on ICANNs Budget & Operations Planning #12

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Please find below the details for the Standing Committee on ICANNs Budget & Operations Planning call on Wednesday, 13 October 2021 at 12:00 UTC for 1 hour. 

For other times: https://tinyurl.com/3dwu72ju

PROPOSED AGENDA


Tentative Timeline for SCBO:

  • 25 Oct 2021 – Close of public comments on PTI/IANA FY23 draft documents; submit Council comment by 23:59 UTC
  • 27 Oct 2021 – ICANN72 - GNSO Council AGM; reset SCBO roster for 2021-2022 cycle
  • 03 Dec 2021 – FY23 draft documents released and public comment proceeding begins (close 06 Feb 2022)
  • Mid-Dec 2021 – Community Webinar 
  • 15 Dec 2021 – SCBO meeting #01 @12:00 UTC to conduct initial review of draft documents and make available a google document for a draft of comments
  • 22 Dec 2021 – SCBO meeting #02 @12:00 UTC
  • 12 Jan 2022 – SCBO meeting #03 @12:00 UTC
  • 19 Jan 2022 – SCBO meeting #04 @12:00 UTC (SCBO joint session with the CCNSO’s SOPC???)
  • 20 Jan 2022 – GNSO Council Meeting << expect to make preview draft of comments as an agenda item (tentative)
  • 26 Jan 2022 – SCBO meeting #05 @12:00 UTC
  • 06 Feb 2022 – Close of public comments on FY23 draft documents; submit Council comment by 23:59 UTC
  • 17 Feb 2022 – GNSO Council Meeting
  • 05 Mar 2022 - ICANN73


BACKGROUND DOCUMENT


RECORDINGS

Audio Recording

Zoom Recording

Chat Transcript

PARTICIPATION

Attendance-CRM

Apologies: Sam Lanfranco, Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix

 

Notes/ Action Items

Action Items due by 15 Oct 2021 at 23:59 UTC:


1) Tim Smith to review Items #2 & #3 if the FY23 appropriate accounts for details asked in FY22 regarding IANA/PTI’s Service Improvements and Operational Excellence activities. We stated that it was the GNSO Council’s expectation that PTI will continue to focus on service improvements, although we noted the budget had $600,000 for such efforts.

 Issue:  This appears to be continued.  See “Operational Excellence” section of PTI Budget at pp. 12-13.   It clear that  FTE’s are dedicated to this effort but we may need to explore the documents for greater detail. We recommended that PTI provided more details on such improvements and could also indicate the expected end date of similar projects going forward (if they had an end date).

                Issue:  Detail is provided in PTI Budget at p. 12.  Is this sufficient for the SCBO.

2) Maxim Alzoba to review item #4 to determine if the FY23 IANA/PTI draft documents adequately account for the impacts due to Covid-19

We were concerned that the PTI-IANA Budget did not discuss the impact or have a risk analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic on the PTI-IANA Budget. For instance, the GNSO Council understood that during fiscal year 2021, one of the key signing ceremonies was subsequently delayed due to travel restrictions and ultimately conducted remotely. The GNSO Council requests that PTI provide a risk analysis and possible implications to  their operations and budget should the pandemic continue into FY2022.

Issue:  COVID-19 appears to have been taken into account at PTI Budget pp. 4, 11 and 14.  Are there other concerns that the SCBO has?

3) Damon Ashcraft and John McElwaine to draft a question(s) regarding travel support for PTI Board members to ICANN meetings and post to the SCBO mailing list.

As noted on the call, the group needs to determine if these issues are within the remit of the GNSO Council to respond to the public comment proceeding. If so, staff will produce a draft for review at our next meeting and for quick turn-around to the GNSO Council for review to meet the 25 Oct. 2021, 23:59 deadline for submission of comments.