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Part 4 - What (do qualified applicants get)?
COMING!!!
- Financial support/relief from ICANN
- Cost Reductions (unclear if this will happen due to lack of feedback from staff)** Waive (consensus for this in the Milestone report)/ Reduced Program Development Costs (US$26,000)
- Staggered Fees
- Partial refund from any Auction proceeds
- Cost reductions for multi-script applications
- Lower registry Fixed Fees
- Lowered risk/contingency cost (US$60,000)
- Review Base cost (US$100,000) to see if reduction can be made
- Other possible reductions eg. Reduction of the Financial Continued Operation Instrument Obligation to 6-12 months
- Financial support distributed by an ICANN originated (Development) Fund (S.2.3.1 of the Milestone Report)
- Non-financial support/relief from ICANN* Logistical and technical help with the DAG application process including legal and filing support
- Awareness/outreach efforts including efforts to ensure more people in underserved markets are aware of the new gTLD program and what they can do to participate in it
- Deferred requirement of DNSSEC
- Relaxed vertical integration regulations
- What other non-financial relief (ie, regulation waiver/deferral) is possible?* Support from third parties facilitated by ICANN
- Pool of collected resources and assistance from third parties*** Translation support
- Logistical and technical support
- Awareness and outreach
- Infrastructure for providing IPv6 compatibility
- DNSSEC consulting
- IDN implementation support
- Possible technical step ups
- Directory and referral service only for eligible applicants
- Facilitating contacts with granting agencies and foundations
- ICANN would facilitate but cannot commit to providing
- Pool of collected resources and assistance from third parties*** Translation support
- Financial Support distributed by External Funding Agencies
Part 5 - How (do we process and evaluate the applications to ensure they qualify)?
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