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15:30-17:00

(10:30-12:00 Cancún)

At-Large Policy Session 3: Applicant Support: What Does Success Look Like?

The 2012 Applicant Support Program, including the community mentoring initiative, is largely regarded as a failure. Theories abound to explain this failure and the Subsequent Procedures Working Group has made some proposals for improvement, leaving the details to the Implementation team. A question that remains, that should be considered as a matter of policy, NOT implementation, is the identification of goals around the program. These goals need to be result oriented, not measures of effort. Goals could include number of applicants for support, number of awarded and delegated strings and geographic distribution of applicants. In this session, we'll discuss community objectives for applicant support, including some possible concrete goals and measures of success for the next round of gTLDs.

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