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RE: [council] FW: Proposal to form a Joint ALAC - GNSO WG "to develop a sustainable approach to providing support to applicants requiring assistance in applying for and operating new gTLDs" in response to the ICANN Board Resolution 20 at the Nairobi Meeti

  • To: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "GNSO Council " <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: [council] FW: Proposal to form a Joint ALAC - GNSO WG "to develop a sustainable approach to providing support to applicants requiring assistance in applying for and operating new gTLDs" in response to the ICANN Board Resolution 20 at the Nairobi Meeti
  • From: "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:02:52 -0400
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  • Thread-topic: [council] FW: Proposal to form a Joint ALAC - GNSO WG "to develop a sustainable approach to providing support to applicants requiring assistance in applying for and operating new gTLDs" in response to the ICANN Board Resolution 20 at the Nairobi Meeti

This is interesting Bruce.  I had no idea that this motion was talking
about financial support; I thought it had to do with customer service
support related to the new gTLD process.  This puts a totally different
slant on this.

Chuck 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 8:48 PM
> To: GNSO Council 
> Subject: RE: [council] FW: Proposal to form a Joint ALAC - 
> GNSO WG "to develop a sustainable approach to providing 
> support to applicants requiring assistance in applying for 
> and operating new gTLDs" in response to the ICANN Board 
> Resolution 20 at the Nairobi Meeti
> 
> 
> Hello Caroline,
> 
> 
> >>  I missed the Board meeting unfortunately and only have the
> resolution to go on for now. Can anyone enlighten me as to 
> what sort of assistance / support was envisaged - was there 
> more discussion on this at the meeting or was it left open 
> and therefore up to the proposed WG?
> 
> It was left open.  
> 
> During the EOI panel and various other forums during the week 
> in ICANN - there were members of the developing world noting 
> that the costs to participate in new gTLDs was high.  This is 
> certainly been a consistent message since the beginning of 
> the new gTLD process, and the original intent of the new gTLD 
> committee in the GNSO was to deal with this in a second round 
> of new gTLDs to avoid gaming in the first round.
> 
> The Board has simply made an open call for suggestions.   At 
> this stage
> they would need to be made on a cost recovery basis - ie 
> ICANN is not changing the rules or costs for new gTLDs at 
> this stage  ("ICANN has a requirement to recover the costs of 
> new gTLD applications and on-going services to new gTLDs").  
> The Board also noted that the application costs are a small 
> proportion of the costs of operating a gTLD at high
> levels of reliability.   The Board would be supportive if a group
> decided to form a foundation that organizations could donate 
> to, or would be supportive if some in the industry offered 
> some in-kind contributions (e.g some staff support or 
> computing resources) to helping applications from the 
> developing world.
> 
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin
> 
> 




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