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Applicants from developing economies requiring relief (#10): ALAC has long been of firm belief that ICANN should offer a beneficial pricing to applicants who need a rigid criteria regarding location, community service and financial need. We continue to charter and encourage the "JAS" working group to explore ways to reduce barriers within the ICANN application framework and advocate cost reduction for worthy applicants. We reject the role, envisioned by some ICANN stakeholders, that would establish a subsidy fund and/or engage in external fundraising. The effort of ICANN to empower applications from all parts of the world must not be one of charity, it must not pit applicants against each other to demonstrate who is most "worth" for a limited pool of subsidy funds.ICANN staff's refusal to even discuss the concept of differential pricing has hampered attempts to research potential areas of cost saving within the current application framework. And while the Board response to Scorecard # 10 is to await the final work of the JAS, it has already definitively explicitly rejected early JAS appeals for lowered pricing at a previous meeting. We strongly endorse the GAC's effort to request the ICANN Board to reconsider this regressive and anti-competitive position.

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