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FINAL DRAFT VERSION TO BE VOTED UPON BY THE ALAC

The final draft version to be voted upon by the ALAC will be placed here before the vote is to begin.

FIRST DRAFT SUBMITTED

ALAC Statement on the Draft FY15 Operating plan and Budget

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The At-Large Advisory Committee finds the draft operating plan and budget well designed and presented in a comprehensive way. 

Nevertheless, the ALAC wants to highlight the following points:

1.1.2 2 Revenue assumptions

• New Registries assumption: 33 million registrations in FY15 seem optimistic; how was it calculated?

1.4  4  Statement of Activities

• What you call “depreciation expenses” in the Operating Expenses is explained on the same page by “Impact of FY14 capital investments (Salesforce.com, Digital Platform, website, etc.)”. How can these be depreciation expenses?

1.6  6  Resource Utilization

• In the “support & revenue”, the increase in “GSE/Gov.Eng./Public Resp” is 3.7 M$. how can this represent 117.2%? 

• The YOY operating expenses growth doesn’t take into consideration the USG transition (B) nor the other priority areas (C) 

1.7  7  Risks and Opportunities to the FY15 Budget

• After more than a full year of experience, It’s easy to predict the number of new registry for FY15. Thus, the risk of a slower ramp up of registries couldn’t be high, while the number of registrations is absolutely unknown, leading to a higher risk.

3.1  1  New gTLD financial summary

• The increase of the expenses is explained inter alias by the ICANN staff allocation (+$11.6M for the whole program). But the ICANN staff expenses are counted in the normal ICANN budget out of the new gTLD part. If it is not a duplication, and those staff expenses were subtracted from the normal ICANN budget, it should be clearly mentioned.

3.1  1  New gTLD financial summary / 3.4. New gTLD Program – Operating Expenses Variance Analysis

• For FY13, there should not be any difference between the Apr 2014 and the June 2013 estimations since June 2013 is the end of FY13 and the figures are not estimation but actual value 

The At-Large Advisory Committee hopes that the planning process will be improved for FY16, now that we have a strategic plan. The interaction with the community should be drastically improved so that the remarks of the community may impact the final plan and budget.

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FIRST DRAFT SUBMITTED