Hi Everyone: I am writing to request your input on an approach to making a budget / funding request to ICANN. I make some recommendations below but am open to others. During the Singapore meeting many identified the formulation of a budget or funding request to ICANN as a high-priority item: high priority because funding of a communication effort is required to promote Universal Awareness of the issue and and also because ICANN's budgeting season is in full swing and the ICANN timetable calls for "community" budget requests very shortly. I recommend that our immediate action is to write to Akram & Cyrus, who kicked off the UA session in Singapore with a commitment of ICANN support to let them know we are formulating a request and ask them how we should submit it. I'd be happy to draft that. I also recommend that we form a team to formulate a proposal. There are a number of marketing and communications professionals on our UA team and, believing the most significant portion of the proposal will have to do with communication, we should recruit them into this effort. We can utilize the existing UA-Comms email list to conduct the discussion and add those that want to participate. I can work with Don Hollander to coordinate the launch of that discussion. Besides a communications effort, there might be other efforts: building and staffing a UA issues desk of the handling "complaints" about UA issues building software or other tools Please reply with funding efforts you think could be funded. I hope this is helpful and in line with the thinking of others. Best regards, Kurt Kurt Pritz +1-310-400-4184 Skype: kjpritz
Em 25/02/2015, à(s) 20:08:000, Kurt Pritz <kpritz@thedna.org> escreveu:
Hi Everyone:
I am writing to request your input on an approach to making a budget / funding request to ICANN. I make some recommendations below but am open to others.
During the Singapore meeting many identified the formulation of a budget or funding request to ICANN as a high-priority item: high priority because funding of a communication effort is required to promote Universal Awareness of the issue and and also because ICANN's budgeting season is in full swing and the ICANN timetable calls for "community" budget requests very shortly.
I recommend that our immediate action is to write to Akram & Cyrus, who kicked off the UA session in Singapore with a commitment of ICANN support to let them know we are formulating a request and ask them how we should submit it. I'd be happy to draft that.
I also recommend that we form a team to formulate a proposal. There are a number of marketing and communications professionals on our UA team and, believing the most significant portion of the proposal will have to do with communication, we should recruit them into this effort. We can utilize the existing UA-Comms email list to conduct the discussion and add those that want to participate. I can work with Don Hollander to coordinate the launch of that discussion.
Besides a communications effort, there might be other efforts: building and staffing a UA issues desk of the handling "complaints" about UA issues building software or other tools
Kurt, On this line, I think it could be made more generic by including both building and fixing. There are two types of efforts that I see could be part of an UA-effort: - Building software that can be used by other parties. This could be validation libraries that correctly determine a valid domain name, e-mail address etc. - Fixing software already in use by other parties. This could be free software that is currently use and present UA challenges, so the effort could fund someone fixing them. One example, if this wasn't already done, would be to develop EAI code for Postfix, a commonly used e-mail transfer agent. As for the funding itself, I note that there are two options in most part: funding as in spending money to specific deliverables (like a communications campaign or a software build request) or in hiring someone that would work toward those goals (like ICANN hiring a software developer and then such developer taking assignments). I don't think that we should be strict on which option should be used, but providing guidance on which model we think would work best. Rubens
All, I like the idea of reaching out to Cyrus and Akram regarding the budget submission mechanics as well as to get their input on how to best craft the request such that it will be seen as complementary to the UA-ICANN joint effort. What do thers thisk of Kurt's suggestion? --Rich Richard Merdinger VP, Domains e: rmerdinger@godaddy.com<mailto:rmerdinger@godaddy.com> s: richard.merdinger m: 319.530.4100 From: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Kurt Pritz Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 5:08 PM To: UA-discuss@icann.org Subject: [UA-discuss] Preparing a Budget request Hi Everyone: I am writing to request your input on an approach to making a budget / funding request to ICANN. I make some recommendations below but am open to others. During the Singapore meeting many identified the formulation of a budget or funding request to ICANN as a high-priority item: high priority because funding of a communication effort is required to promote Universal Awareness of the issue and and also because ICANN's budgeting season is in full swing and the ICANN timetable calls for "community" budget requests very shortly. I recommend that our immediate action is to write to Akram & Cyrus, who kicked off the UA session in Singapore with a commitment of ICANN support to let them know we are formulating a request and ask them how we should submit it. I'd be happy to draft that. I also recommend that we form a team to formulate a proposal. There are a number of marketing and communications professionals on our UA team and, believing the most significant portion of the proposal will have to do with communication, we should recruit them into this effort. We can utilize the existing UA-Comms email list to conduct the discussion and add those that want to participate. I can work with Don Hollander to coordinate the launch of that discussion. Besides a communications effort, there might be other efforts: * building and staffing a UA issues desk of the handling "complaints" about UA issues * building software or other tools Please reply with funding efforts you think could be funded. I hope this is helpful and in line with the thinking of others. Best regards, Kurt Kurt Pritz +1-310-400-4184 Skype: kjpritz
I believe Don has already been collecting some of this info. If the structure in the Charter stands, each Project Group Coordinator will submit budget requests to the Steering Group Chair, who will formulate the total ask. Christian Dawson Chief Operating Officer, ServInt 12001 Sunrise Valley Dr., Suite 350 | Reston, VA 20191 703.288.3530 | 800.5.SERVINT (800.573.7846)
On Feb 26, 2015, at 4:51 PM, Richard Merdinger <rmerdinger@godaddy.com> wrote:
All, I like the idea of reaching out to Cyrus and Akram regarding the budget submission mechanics as well as to get their input on how to best craft the request such that it will be seen as complementary to the UA-ICANN joint effort.
What do thers thisk of Kurt’s suggestion?
--Rich
Richard Merdinger VP, Domains e: rmerdinger@godaddy.com s: richard.merdinger m: 319.530.4100
From: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Kurt Pritz Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 5:08 PM To: UA-discuss@icann.org Subject: [UA-discuss] Preparing a Budget request
Hi Everyone:
I am writing to request your input on an approach to making a budget / funding request to ICANN. I make some recommendations below but am open to others.
During the Singapore meeting many identified the formulation of a budget or funding request to ICANN as a high-priority item: high priority because funding of a communication effort is required to promote Universal Awareness of the issue and and also because ICANN's budgeting season is in full swing and the ICANN timetable calls for "community" budget requests very shortly.
I recommend that our immediate action is to write to Akram & Cyrus, who kicked off the UA session in Singapore with a commitment of ICANN support to let them know we are formulating a request and ask them how we should submit it. I'd be happy to draft that.
I also recommend that we form a team to formulate a proposal. There are a number of marketing and communications professionals on our UA team and, believing the most significant portion of the proposal will have to do with communication, we should recruit them into this effort. We can utilize the existing UA-Comms email list to conduct the discussion and add those that want to participate. I can work with Don Hollander to coordinate the launch of that discussion.
Besides a communications effort, there might be other efforts: building and staffing a UA issues desk of the handling "complaints" about UA issues building software or other tools
Please reply with funding efforts you think could be funded.
I hope this is helpful and in line with the thinking of others.
Best regards,
Kurt
Kurt Pritz +1-310-400-4184 Skype: kjpritz
Kurt, Thanks for this appropriate kick-off of this discussion. I would want to be a part of the group that works on this. Assume "communications" includes the concept of outreach, and of course outreach would mean presence in key industry events where our target contacts congregate. As a first, and since the next ICANN meeting is in Buenos Aires, I would propose that, instead of the customary 60 minute UASG panel discussion with audience (where we talk among ICANN attendees who are familiar with our issues), we hold a one day seminar, perhaps on the Friday commencing the ICANN meeting, and invite key software associations, university IT educators, ISPs and Connectivity Providers, web portal and mobile apps developer clusters, CIOs from online transactional services such as home banking, online retail and transactions in general. The first part of the seminar would be conceptual, giving an overview of the issues involved, with examples we can muster of non-resolving e-mails, websites and online rejection of new gTLDs.The second part would be technical, with presentations for an audience that has technical skills and know-how. It could be presented as THE GLOBAL DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM UPDATE, or something like that... Some funding should be made available for funding attendance of key software associations in the region (only for entities that have large memberships and can thus distribute what they take away from the seminar to their members) Seminar could be taped and subtitled for distribution in other regions. Materials should be available to be handed out, both overview and technical/specific (I think videos are good). The ICANN LAC community could certainly be called upon to assist in getting the right people to attend. With regards to your suggestions, which I agree with, if we consider: - building and staffing a UA issues desk of the handling "complaints" about UA issues This is of the utmost importance as the pivotal source of information that tells us where problems are happening. This has a second leg, which is: who rings the doorbell at a problem target, and how is that to be done? In discussions within the ISPCP Constituency, which is highly committed to support the UASG, the concept of regional coverage was found attractive. It may well be more productive to have someone local set up the meeting and go in and explain the problem, than attempting to do it by phone from Los Angeles or London (for example). Regional coverage could encompass volunteer clusters, who live in the region and know how and where to approach targets. Just a couple of thoughts... Tony Harris On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Kurt Pritz <kpritz@thedna.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone:
I am writing to request your input on an approach to making a budget / funding request to ICANN. I make some recommendations below but am open to others.
During the Singapore meeting many identified the formulation of a budget or funding request to ICANN as a high-priority item: high priority because funding of a communication effort is required to promote Universal Awareness of the issue and and also because ICANN's budgeting season is in full swing and the ICANN timetable calls for "community" budget requests very shortly.
I recommend that our immediate action is to write to Akram & Cyrus, who kicked off the UA session in Singapore with a commitment of ICANN support to let them know we are formulating a request and ask them how we should submit it. I'd be happy to draft that.
I also recommend that we form a team to formulate a proposal. There are a number of marketing and communications professionals on our UA team and, believing the most significant portion of the proposal will have to do with communication, we should recruit them into this effort. We can utilize the existing UA-Comms email list to conduct the discussion and add those that want to participate. I can work with Don Hollander to coordinate the launch of that discussion.
Besides a communications effort, there might be other efforts:
- building and staffing a UA issues desk of the handling "complaints" about UA issues - building software or other tools
Please reply with funding efforts you think could be funded.
I hope this is helpful and in line with the thinking of others.
Best regards,
Kurt
Kurt Pritz +1-310-400-4184 Skype: kjpritz
Kurt, et al… I wouldn’t worry so much about the budget process but instead focus on the tasks that the community thinks need to be done (including those that will require cash) and some indication of the amount that might required. We’ve already heard from Akram and Cyrus about how important this is within ICANN, so let’s let them handle the internal process. A few examples that I have heard over the past month or so: 1) Host a Hackathon so that validation and transformation code can be developed in many different programming languages. 2) Provide travel support for UA Ambassadors to get the message out. 3) Support a trouble ticket logging system, possibly with resources devoted to educating remedies 4) Developing documentation aimed at: Software Engineers; Systems Architects; CIOs, CEOs, Sales & Marketing Executives, Government Officials, Government Ministers 5) Seeding open sources solutions for a mail client. (CNNIC funded an open source mail transport agent last year). 6) Developing some metrics and regularly measuring them. These are just some ideas that I’ve heard. I hope that this group will spend some time thinking of where they would want effort made rather than worry about ICANN’s internal budget process. (and not everything may happen in the first year, but let’s see what we, as a community, think needs to happen and then how we schedule things. And, of course, I hope that people are thinking about which area they want to spend some of their time and effort to move this forward. As I noted yesterday, the draft Charter is still open for comments. Don
On 26/02/2015, at 12:08 pm, Kurt Pritz <kpritz@thedna.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone:
I am writing to request your input on an approach to making a budget / funding request to ICANN. I make some recommendations below but am open to others.
During the Singapore meeting many identified the formulation of a budget or funding request to ICANN as a high-priority item: high priority because funding of a communication effort is required to promote Universal Awareness of the issue and and also because ICANN's budgeting season is in full swing and the ICANN timetable calls for "community" budget requests very shortly.
I recommend that our immediate action is to write to Akram & Cyrus, who kicked off the UA session in Singapore with a commitment of ICANN support to let them know we are formulating a request and ask them how we should submit it. I'd be happy to draft that.
I also recommend that we form a team to formulate a proposal. There are a number of marketing and communications professionals on our UA team and, believing the most significant portion of the proposal will have to do with communication, we should recruit them into this effort. We can utilize the existing UA-Comms email list to conduct the discussion and add those that want to participate. I can work with Don Hollander to coordinate the launch of that discussion.
Besides a communications effort, there might be other efforts: building and staffing a UA issues desk of the handling "complaints" about UA issues building software or other tools
Please reply with funding efforts you think could be funded.
I hope this is helpful and in line with the thinking of others.
Best regards,
Kurt
Kurt Pritz +1-310-400-4184 Skype: kjpritz
Don +1 IMO if this group can be clear on the role of ICANN (the organization, rather than the community), the rest should flow. I would like to suggest that the ICANN role is that of catalyst. Not hiring developers. It's role should be seed funding initiatives to allow some space to seek co-funding, not running or sole funding the initiatives. My reason for saying this is not to avoid responsibility, but rather to see how we can maximize impact and partner with commercial players, language communities, entrepreneurs and individuals. Just my personal opinion. Mike
On 27 Feb 2015, at 06:39, Don Hollander <don@i2.org.nz> wrote:
Kurt, et al…
I wouldn’t worry so much about the budget process but instead focus on the tasks that the community thinks need to be done (including those that will require cash) and some indication of the amount that might required. We’ve already heard from Akram and Cyrus about how important this is within ICANN, so let’s let them handle the internal process.
A few examples that I have heard over the past month or so:
1) Host a Hackathon so that validation and transformation code can be developed in many different programming languages.
2) Provide travel support for UA Ambassadors to get the message out.
3) Support a trouble ticket logging system, possibly with resources devoted to educating remedies
4) Developing documentation aimed at: Software Engineers; Systems Architects; CIOs, CEOs, Sales & Marketing Executives, Government Officials, Government Ministers
5) Seeding open sources solutions for a mail client. (CNNIC funded an open source mail transport agent last year).
6) Developing some metrics and regularly measuring them.
These are just some ideas that I’ve heard.
I hope that this group will spend some time thinking of where they would want effort made rather than worry about ICANN’s internal budget process.
(and not everything may happen in the first year, but let’s see what we, as a community, think needs to happen and then how we schedule things.
And, of course, I hope that people are thinking about which area they want to spend some of their time and effort to move this forward.
As I noted yesterday, the draft Charter is still open for comments.
Don
On 26/02/2015, at 12:08 pm, Kurt Pritz <kpritz@thedna.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone:
I am writing to request your input on an approach to making a budget / funding request to ICANN. I make some recommendations below but am open to others.
During the Singapore meeting many identified the formulation of a budget or funding request to ICANN as a high-priority item: high priority because funding of a communication effort is required to promote Universal Awareness of the issue and and also because ICANN's budgeting season is in full swing and the ICANN timetable calls for "community" budget requests very shortly.
I recommend that our immediate action is to write to Akram & Cyrus, who kicked off the UA session in Singapore with a commitment of ICANN support to let them know we are formulating a request and ask them how we should submit it. I'd be happy to draft that.
I also recommend that we form a team to formulate a proposal. There are a number of marketing and communications professionals on our UA team and, believing the most significant portion of the proposal will have to do with communication, we should recruit them into this effort. We can utilize the existing UA-Comms email list to conduct the discussion and add those that want to participate. I can work with Don Hollander to coordinate the launch of that discussion.
Besides a communications effort, there might be other efforts: building and staffing a UA issues desk of the handling "complaints" about UA issues building software or other tools
Please reply with funding efforts you think could be funded.
I hope this is helpful and in line with the thinking of others.
Best regards,
Kurt
Kurt Pritz +1-310-400-4184 Skype: kjpritz
Great feedback from all. I think part of the budget question is making funds available for paid media, to spread the UA word in a positive fashion to raise awareness that domain names are here, growing, and important, so that businesses and services recognize they need to address acceptance issues because the consumers are coming. Raising consumer awareness puts pressure on for Universal Acceptance because if demand for domain names of all shapes and sizes is there, it behooves all the stakeholders to make sure their #*#* works. :-) I also think this group could develop a strategy to reach out to high profile acceptance challenges, where a single fix can have a widespread impact. For example, if new gTLDs don't resolve in the default Samsung mobile browser, getting Samsung to correct it will impact literally millions of devices. That's a big win for UA. Perhaps we should try to categorize such "big" opportunities and target them sooner rather than later. Thanks again to everyone. Jeffrey Sass, CMO .CLUB Domains, LLC Direct: (+1) 954-256-9334 Mobile: (+1) 970-367-7277 E-Mail: jeff@nic.club Website: www.nic.club Twitter: @sass @getDotClub Skype, Hangouts: jwsass PLEASE NOTE: I am only checking email 2-3 times per day. If something is time sensitive (really time sensitive) please message me or text me at the mobile number above. Thanks! From: Don Hollander (don@i2.org.nz) Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:39 PM To: Kurt Pritz (kpritz@thedna.org) Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Preparing a Budget request Kurt, et al… I wouldn’t worry so much about the budget process but instead focus on the tasks that the community thinks need to be done (including those that will require cash) and some indication of the amount that might required. We’ve already heard from Akram and Cyrus about how important this is within ICANN, so let’s let them handle the internal process. A few examples that I have heard over the past month or so: 1) Host a Hackathon so that validation and transformation code can be developed in many different programming languages. 2) Provide travel support for UA Ambassadors to get the message out. 3) Support a trouble ticket logging system, possibly with resources devoted to educating remedies 4) Developing documentation aimed at: Software Engineers; Systems Architects; CIOs, CEOs, Sales & Marketing Executives, Government Officials, Government Ministers 5) Seeding open sources solutions for a mail client. (CNNIC funded an open source mail transport agent last year). 6) Developing some metrics and regularly measuring them. These are just some ideas that I’ve heard. I hope that this group will spend some time thinking of where they would want effort made rather than worry about ICANN’s internal budget process. (and not everything may happen in the first year, but let’s see what we, as a community, think needs to happen and then how we schedule things. And, of course, I hope that people are thinking about which area they want to spend some of their time and effort to move this forward. As I noted yesterday, the draft Charter is still open for comments. Don On 26/02/2015, at 12:08 pm, Kurt Pritz < kpritz@thedna.org> wrote: Hi Everyone: I am writing to request your input on an approach to making a budget / funding request to ICANN. I make some recommendations below but am open to others. During the Singapore meeting many identified the formulation of a budget or funding request to ICANN as a high-priority item: high priority because funding of a communication effort is required to promote Universal Awareness of the issue and and also because ICANN's budgeting season is in full swing and the ICANN timetable calls for "community" budget requests very shortly. I recommend that our immediate action is to write to Akram & Cyrus, who kicked off the UA session in Singapore with a commitment of ICANN support to let them know we are formulating a request and ask them how we should submit it. I'd be happy to draft that. I also recommend that we form a team to formulate a proposal. There are a number of marketing and communications professionals on our UA team and, believing the most significant portion of the proposal will have to do with communication, we should recruit them into this effort. We can utilize the existing UA-Comms email list to conduct the discussion and add those that want to participate. I can work with Don Hollander to coordinate the launch of that discussion. Besides a communications effort, there might be other efforts: building and staffing a UA issues desk of the handling "complaints" about UA issues building software or other tools Please reply with funding efforts you think could be funded. I hope this is helpful and in line with the thinking of others. Best regards, Kurt Kurt Pritz +1-310-400-4184 Skype: kjpritz
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