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The lack of action on the creation of a Foundation and/or Fund for the purpose of fund raising.

One of the recommendation recommendations of the JAS WG was that a Board initiated community wide committee be created to investigate the means and methods of creating an ICANN charitable foundation that could both do fund raising and could make decisions about grants to worthy applicants, including to those attempting to create registries in developing economies.  A resolution initiating this Board committee was not include included among the 8 December 2011 resolutions.  As the questions that need to be answered in the investigation of an ICANN charitable foundation are many and establishing such a fund would be time consuming, and as such a foundation or fund would be necessary in any fundraising effort to assist Support Applicants beyond the $2 MUSD allocated by the ICANN Board, ALAC advises that this effort be initiated as soon as possible.

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The Preliminary Applicant Support Program was unspecific about the composition of the Support Application Review Panel (SARP).  This is an area of concern as there was a long discussed consensus in the JAS WG that such a group would need to be composed of both community members and of external experts.  There is currently concern that the SARP will be created along the lines of other New gTLD program Review Panels and involve an external panel.  ALAC advises that the board Board instruct the  Staff Implementation team to work with a group of JAS WG volunteers to develop a plan for the SARP that includes both community volunteers and external experts.

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At-large members have expressed concern of on the reach of the current New gTLD Outreach Program, in that it has not seemed to included outreach beyond centrally located communities in the capitals of the world where the ICANN President can travel to give presentations.  In many communities, thee there is still no knowledge of the New gTLD program.  In extending the Outreach program to include the Applicant Support program, there will be a need to increase the reach of the program beyond the current scope.  As the Preliminary Support Implementation program does not yet contain the specifics of the revamped Outreach program, ALAC advises that the board instruct the  Staff Implementation team to work with a group of JAS WG volunteers to develop a revamped Outreach program.  ALAC also request requests a briefing from the Staff Implementation team on both the general Outreach program and on the exptended extended program of Outreach for Support Applicant

In concluding this advice Advice from the ALAC, we request that the Board discuss with the ALAC any of the advice which it finds it can't accept and requests a formal reply from the Board on the outcome of any such discussions.

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