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The section can be found below, as well as on pp. 17-19 of the draft Final Report.  Please do not edit the text directly here.  Instead, please place your suggestions (including suggested actual wording, if you'd like) at the bottom of the page using the "Add Comment" function.  This will create a history of all comments.

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Instead of paying the entire fee upon acceptance of the applications, applicants meeting the criteria established for support could pay the fees incrementally. Staggered fees payment enables an applicant to compete for strings that might otherwise have gone to the first and/or only group with enough money to apply.

Wiki Markup*Partial Refund from Any Auction Proceeds*
Eligible applicants receive a partial refund from any auction proceeds \[ [U1]\|https://community.icann.org/#_msocom_1\] \ - for which they can repay any loans or invest into their registry. It could be used to refill the disadvantaged applicant’s foundation fund \ [[U2]\|https://community.icann.org/#_msocom_2\] for  for subsequent rounds. *{_}
Note:_* _On-going support will be limited to five years_ *
Financial support distributed by an ICANN originated (Development) “fund”*\[[U3]\|https://community.icann.org/#_msocom_3\]* * For any funding provided through ICANN by a benefactor\[[U4]\] 
For any funding provided through ICANN by a benefactor[U4|https://community.icann.org/#_msocom_4\]    that does not wish to administer that funding itself, these funds would be allocated by a especially dedicated committee\[[U5]\|https://community.icann.org/#_msocom_5\]  .

The WG recommends the creation of a development fund directed at new gTLD applicants who were determined as meeting the criteria established for support.

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Financial support Distributed by External Funding Agencies
There is consensus in the WG 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.

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Wiki Markup \[ [U1]\|https://community.icann.org/#_msoanchor_1\]Reference guidebook for context

Wiki Markup \[[U2]\ [U2|https://community.icann.org/#_msoanchor_2\]Glossary? Wiki Markup

 \[[U3]\ [U3|https://community.icann.org/#_msoanchor_3\]Terminology consistency issue. Glossary?

Wiki Markup \[ [U4]\|https://community.icann.org/#_msoanchor_4\]Glossary Wiki Markup

 \[ [U5]\|https://community.icann.org/#_msoanchor_5\]Clarification needed