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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-2-17may10-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-17may10-en.htm</a></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Public Comment:
Draft FY11 Operating Plan and Budget...Ready for Community Consideration</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">17
May 2010</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The draft FY11 Operating Plan
and Budget is posted and ready for community consideration. Translations will
be posted shortly as they become available.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-v1-fy11-17may10-en.pdf">Draft
FY10 Operating Plan and Budget for Community Review</a> [PDF, 1.33 MB]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN's annual operating plan
and budget describes the planned activities and required resources for the
fiscal year. These activities are based on ICANNs strategic objectives. The
Bylaws require that the draft FY11 Operating Plan be posted by the 17th of May
to ensure adequate opportunity for community feedback. In mid February, an even
earlier draft of FY11 plans was posted – the Budget Framework - and community
members provided feedback in online fora, meetings in Nairobi, and on
conference calls. The comments received and the summary analysis, and proposed
responses to those comments, can be found here: <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/op-budget-fy2011/msg00012.html">http://forum.icann.org/lists/op-budget-fy2011/msg00012.html</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Based in part on that
feedback, this draft FY11 Operating Plan and Budget provides more data views
and more detailed information than ever before. The draft achieves the key
objective to keep the FY11 operating expense budget within a $59 million limit
to ensure sound fiscal principles. A few highlights to note:</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Some
growth in internal security efforts – DNSSEC, Business Continuity; no
funding in this fiscal year for some security initiatives such as DNS-CERT</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">More
support for ICANN’s policy development processes</span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The draft identifies areas
that have been cut or slowed down due to budget constraints.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Over a month remains before
the final budget is submitted to the Board for approval. As always, the
community is encouraged to provide feedback: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201006-en.htm#draft-budget">http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201006-en.htm#draft-budget</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">After further community
feedback, and synthesis, the final FY11 budget is to be submitted to the ICANN
Board for adoption at its Brussels meeting in June 2010.</span></p>
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