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At the ICANN San Francisco meeting the WG received a request from the GAC to consider including Government applications from Developing Countries for support. The WG will work to obtain a mutually acceptable definition and criteria to fit Government applications with the GAC WG, but recognises the difficulty in measuring a government’s “need” and concern of the appropriateness of offering support for one government over other applications if resources are limited. The GAC WG has offered to review the JAS criteria and provide its recommendations on possible support to Developing Country Government applications. We look forward to the results of this work.
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In the latest GAC response to the Board, dated 12 April 2011, the GAC states that:
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This is likely to be the only advice received by the GAC at this point in time and no details of the proposed alternative cost structure have been given by the GAC.
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3.3 Communities needing to preserve a language or culture
The “.cat” Catalonian TLD is seen by many linguistic, ethnic and cultural communities as a success story that has helped to preserve and indeed grow the language and culture. Many such groups -- especially those with geographically dispersed diasporas -- see a TLD as unifying icon that will facilitate Internet use while encouraging community growth. The WG agreed that the applications by such communities, should they meet the requirements of need, should be eligible for relief/support.
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support has been expressed for for concept of “bundling” -- that is, reducing the price of a TLD string in an “underserved” IDN script that accompanies a conventional application for the similar string in a Latin script.Wiki Markup \[how broad?\]
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The WG did achieve consensus that as long as the Applicant is providing build-out of a language whose web-presence is limited and they meet the other criteria we should give support. Wiki Markup \[ How does this translate into usable eligible-or-not criteria \]
3.5 Organizations based in Lesser Developed Economies
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