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There is consensus in the group that external funding agencies would make grants according to their own requirements and goals. ICANN would only provide those agencies with applicant information of those who met the criteria established for support.

 WAS PREVIOUSLY:

• Financial support/relief from ICANN
• Cost Reductions -- at minimum, waive (consensus for this in the Milestone report) the Program Development Costs (US$26,000) 
• More reductions to be recommended as we are given better access to study the numbers
  • Staggered Fees
  • Partial refund from any Auction proceeds
  • Cost reductions for multi-script applications No, what was agreed on is:

• Price reductions should be implemented to encourage the build out of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in small or underserved languages, One way this might be accomplished is through bundling of applications. Applicants should have explicit endorsement from within the language community to be served

• • 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
  • Ongoing support will be limited to five years

• 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  setups
• Directory and referral service only for eligible applicants** Facilitating contacts with granting agencies and foundations** ICANN would facilitate but cannot commit to providing

• Financial support distributed by an ICANN originated (Development) Fund (S.2.3.1 of the Milestone Report)

Part 5 - How are gTLD applications evaluated against the above criteria?

The Working Group has determined that a detailed description of the process flow, metrics and procedures for determining whether an application meets the criteria and how this application will be dealt with is required and the . The following broad steps are suggested as a starting point to this process and are meant to be to be in parallel with the DAG-

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2. the Application enters the DAG process ((that is, it is registered in the TAS and the Applicant pays the $5,000 deposit; the Application is checked for completeness; IF  and if the above foregoing is ok okay and there is no anticipated contention the Application then progresses to being posted, the Objection period, Background Screening, IE results posted)

3. An Audit is done on the Application, Applicant and its partners to ensure it is still  eligible/needy. During the Needy application process and at certain points of the DAG we perform this Audit (Part 3) to ensure the Applicant is still  eligible or needy. Suggest It is suggested that this occurs at three points: upon initial evaluation of the Applicant, and if the Applicant is approved Needy in the DAG process just after the IE results are posted, and repeated just after there is no string contention.

4. If so, then the Application progresses in the DAG through Objections phase ... to String Contention

5. Once IFthere theis aboveno isissue okto andthis therepoint isand no string contention then an Audit is done on the Applicant and its partners to ensure it is still financially eligible/needy; \[If there is a string contention then ?the letApplication itwill go through normal ICANN channels with the Applicant funding this additional process\]

6. If so, then the Application progresses to Contract execution, Pre-delegation check and Delegation.

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