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<h2><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">News
Alert</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-17may09-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-17may09-en.htm</a></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Draft FY10
Operating Plan and Budget .... Ready for Your Consideration</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN's
Draft FY10 Operating Plan and Budget</span></p>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">17
May 2009</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-v1-fy10-17may09-en.pdf">Draft
FY10 Operating Plan and Budget for Community Review</a> [PDF, 936K]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The draft FY10 Operating Plan
and Budget is posted and ready for community feedback.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The draft plan and budget
follows the plans described in the FY10 Framework which was posted in mid
February prior to the Mexico City meeting. The FY10 Framework was discussed
with members of the ICANN community at the Mexico City meeting in March,
through online public fora, and through conference calls with ICANN
constituencies. The comments received and the summary analysis of those
comments can be found here: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-200904.html#op-budget-fy2010">http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-200904.html#op-budget-fy2010</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This draft FY10 Operating
Plan and Budget provides more detailed information but follows the essence of
the plan and budget described in the Framework with adjustments in response to
community feedback and further research including:</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Constrain
budget growth to 5% over FY2009 budget</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Revenues
declining somewhat due to reductions in estimated domain transaction
volume</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Possible
fee reductions to offset the costs to registrars to adopt early the RAA
amendments currently under consideration</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Some
increases in travel support</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Offsetting
cost reductions in a number of areas</span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In addition, more detailed
analysis and more views of ICANN's budget are provided.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN has now completed its
10th year, and this draft FY10 Operating Plan and Budget reflects a growing
organization that is attaining operational maturity in many areas. Many of the
organizational support elements envisioned for ICANN are at levels adequate to
provide sufficient support for the current scale of community work. This means
that ICANN's spending growth is anticipated to slow substantially in the FY10
budget as compared with previous years (4.9% compared with 30.1% in FY09).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">After more public comment and
feedback, the budget is expected to be adopted by the ICANN Board at its Sydney
meeting in June 2009.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The world economic
environment has dictated that costs that can be deferred will be. ICANN will
likely under run its FY09 budget through some explicit cost controls as well as
through the shifting of some program expenses into FY10.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As always, the community is encouraged to comment on how
well this plan addresses priorities identified in the Strategic Plan. The
community is encouraged to comment further regarding the plan elements that
might be streamlined, reduced, or deferred: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-200906.html#draft-opplan-budget">http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-200906.html#draft-opplan-budget</a>
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