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ALAC Statement on the Draft FY15 Operating plan Plan and Budget

The ALAC finds the draft operating plan and budget Draft FY15 Operating Plan and Budget well designed and presented in a comprehensive way. 

Nevertheless, the ALAC wants wishes to highlight express the following pointsobservations and questions:

1.1.2 Revenue assumptions

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

1.4  Statement of Activities

• "Depreciation expenses” in the Operating Expenses is are explained as the “impact of FY14 capital investments (Salesforce.com, Digital Platform, website, etc.)”. How can these Please be so kind to clarify how these can be depreciation expenses?

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

• The YOY operating expenses growth takes appears to be taking neither the USG transition (B) nor the other priority areas (C) into consideration. 

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• After more than a full year of experience, it is easy to predict predicting the number of new registry registries for FY15 is a simple exercise. Thus, the risk of a slower ramp up of registries couldn’t could not be high; on the other hand, if the number of registrations is absolutely unknown, it will lead to a higher risk.

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• The increase of the expenses is explained inter aliasalia by the additional ICANN staff allocation (+$11.6M for the whole program). But the However, ICANN staff expenses are costs appear to be also counted in the normal ICANN budget out of , under the new gTLD part (this sentence may need further clarification)section. If it this is not 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 with figures that are not estimation estimations but the actual value values.
  

The ALAC hopes that the planning process will be improved for FY16, as ICANN now we have has a strategic plan. The After this year's again shortened cycle, the interaction with the community should be drastically significantly improved so that the remarks of the community may impact the final plan and budget.

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