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3.3 Notes on ineligible criteria
Applications by governments or government-owned entities
By consensus of the WG, purely Governmental or para-statal applicants have been listed as not entitled to receive support. However, 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 recognizes the difficulty in measuring a government’s “need” and concern of the appropriateness of offering support for one government over another if resources are limited. The GAC WG has offered to review the JAS criteria and provide its recommendations on a formulation of a solution for possible support to Developing Country Government applications.
Part 4 - What benefits do qualified applicants receive?
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- Waive (consensus for this in the Milestone report) the Program Development Costs (US$26,000)
- Lower risk/contingency cost (US$60,000)
- Review Base cost (US$100,000) to see if reduction can be made
- Cost reductions to encourage the build out of IDNs in small or underserved languages.
- Lower registry Fixed Fees
- Exemption or deferment of IPv6 implementation requirements as possible
Further reductions recommended
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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.
Part 5 -
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Evaluation process and relationship to the new gTLD Applicant Guidebook (AG)
The WG has determined, at this time, that best possible process to provide support for such applications is to be done through a process that is parallel to, and not a replacement of, the ICANN Applicant Guidebook. Thus, even after the Guidebook is formally approved, this WG can continue its work to refine those components of its mandate which remain unresolved. It is important that the AG make mention of this program and refer interested potential applicants to it, however it is not the WG's intention to otherwise affect the existing application process. To qualify for support applicants may be required to demonstrate that they meet this program's criteria on financial need and public interest; however such activity is intended to supplement, not replace, existing mechanisms in the AG.
There was no consensus within the WG whether this process should be-
- fully, partially or not confidential;
- funded by ICANN with an initial lumpsum amount; or
- evaluated and co-ordinated by an internal or external ICANN entity;
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The WG had full consensus that Applicants that receive support under this program should repay that support as possible, and that such repayments go into a sustainable revolving fund used to support the future applications. Repayment is dependent on the gTLD Operator's financial success and will take the form of either
- a capital contribution or lump sum; or
- an income contribution or annual instalment of until a lump sum is repaid; or
- repayment of the full or a percentage of the reduced base cost fee expended by the Support Development Program.
The following broad steps , did not obtain thorough evaluation or full consensus by the WG, but are have been suggested as a starting point to this process and will be further refined by the WG based on the Parts 1 to 4 above. Note the process is meant to be to be in parallel with the AG-
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B. Revoked or cancelled- used in cases where the Applicant was wrongly granted support (for example granted support as a result of giving false information about finances), the Applicant and/or its partners will have to pay all the funds already spent on the application and the application will be revoked/discarded at that point
The WG had full consensus that there should be repayment in success cases and successful applicants would agree to repay/rebate application subsides into a sustainable revolving fund to support the future applications. Repayment is dependent on the gTLD Operator's financial success and will take the form of either
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