Re: [admin-discuss] IETF Administration LLC 2024 Draft Budget

Thanks for this draft and I don't say I am familiar with all of it, but I
know that you done a big effort for all the best of LLC and I hope this
feedback can help me and all of us for better understanding or better
future IETF.

Two questions and one comment or suggestion and some reasoning below,

1)  I am not sure why we have this capitalization adjustment of USD
1,015,942, why is it reducing our net income lower than the previous year?
are we buying some tools that are an asset for the LLC IETF.

2) Staff cost of tools, is getting increased very high within the budget
but not understood why, or what is really meant by (migrating IT
Infrastructure,,,,) ?

3)  Also I expect that the tools 2024_budget_draft to be around USD
1,377,000 but shows in table as USD 1,577,962 (why increase to be higher
than 200,000) and better close to the community leadership budget, so it
will be more important to increase support for commun_leadership than to
increase tools by USD 475,000. I suggest that the increase to be splitted
between them both so becoming as follows:

community leadership: USD 1,102,829
tools: USD 1,377,962

Reasons:
1) The increase in leadership within budget draft goes only to the
secretary but the higher level is same, so it is needed to be increased as
well, the increase only is about USD 100,000 and goes only to the secretary.

2) any big/small/medium increase in budget needs to have a supported
goal/transformation for LLC IETF, so I was not able to see that while
checking the budget. However, it is important that increases in all table
fields need to reasonable for the purpose and for all bodies to work more
efficient, but if no increase in support that can mean that there were no
need for increase related to information that is not understood by the
reader but understood by the writer of budget.

3) The non-meeting revenue was decreased so that we should not increase
staff cost and should not increase operation cost. Furthermore, the meeting
revenue value has increased so it is most better not to reduce
meeting expenses average (2024 does have less average meeting expenses
than 2023).

4) The meeting expenses within Vancouver IETF120 shows USD 1,487,893, which
it is high by looking into the city way of life or by looking into F&B
which looks higher than the other F&B of meeting IETF119 and IETF121.

Best Regards
AB

On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 6:14 PM IETF Executive Director <
exec-director@ietf.org> wrote:

> The IETF Administration LLC has prepared its draft budget for 2024:
>
>
> https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2024-draft-budget/
>
> Community feedback on the budget is welcome and should be made either
> directly to the IETF Executive Director at exec-director@ietf.org, who
> can also answer any questions, or to the public list
> admin-discuss@ietf.org.  Please provide any feedback before December 30th
> 2023.
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