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ALAC Statement on the Draft FY15 Operating plan and Budget

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

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

1.4  Statement of Activities

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

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• In the “support & revenue”, the increase in “GSE/Gov.Eng./Public Resp” is 3$3.7 M$7M. how How can this represent 117.2%? 

• The YOY operating expenses growth doesn’t take into consideration takes neither the USG transition (B) nor the other priority areas (C) into consideration. 

1.7  Risks and Opportunities to the FY15 Budget

• After more than a full year of experience, It’s it is 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 ; if the number of registrations is absolutely unknown, leading it will lead to a higher risk.

3.1  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 (this sentence may need further clarification). If it is not a duplication, and those staff expenses were subtracted from the normal ICANN budget, it should be clearly mentioned.

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• 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 the actual value 

The At-Large Advisory Committee ALAC hopes that the planning process will be improved for FY16, as 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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