The JAS WG submitted its Second Milestone Report to its chartering organizaitonsorganizations, the ALAC and GNSO, on 7 May 2011.

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Draft Second Milestone Report

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follow-up to its first Milestone Report and in response to requests from its charters as well as the Board and Government Advisory Committee, this Joint Application Support Wording Group is pleased to submit a Second Milestone Report to its chartering organizations, the ALAC and GNSO.

The work given to this community working group (WG) has presented enormous challenges to its membership, most of whom care deeply about reducing obstacles for proposed TLD applications by or supporting communities in developing economic environments.

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The WG has determined a number of criteria to be used in the determination of a gTLD application eligible for support and/or cost relief (in this document called the “eligible application”):

To qualify for elibility eligibility under this program,

1. The Application must demonstrate service to the public interest, including one or more of the following characteristics

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3. The Application must NOT have any of the following characeristicscharacteristics:

1. From a governmental or para-statal applicant (subject to review, see below)
2. A TLD string explicitly based, and related to, a trademark (ie, . a "dot brand" TLD)
3. A string that is, or is based on, a geographic name
4. Sponsors or partners who are bankrupt or under bankruptcy protection
5. Sponsors or partners who are ubject subject of litigation or criminal investigation
6. Otherwise incapable of meeting any of the Applicant Guidebook's due diligence procedures

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To address the needs of these groups, partial (but not consensus) support has been expressed for concept of “bundling” -- that is, reducing the price of a TLD string in an “underserved” “under-served” language script that accompanies a conventional application for the similar string in a Latin script. 

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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 under-served languages.
• Lower registry Fixed Fees
• Exemption or deferment of IPv6 implementation requirements as possible

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• Logistical assistance
• Technical help
• legal and filing support
• Awareness/outreach efforts including efforts to ensure more people in underserved under-served 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

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• Facilitating contacts with granting agencies and foundations
• ICANN would facilitate but cannot commit to providing

4.3.3 - IPv6 Support

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IPv6

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Support

• For registries located in areas where IPv6 connectivity is limited or unavailable, ICANN will facilitate support from IPv6 providers to provide IPv6 gateways into the registry IPv4 services.

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