At the ICANN public meeting held in Singapore, the ICANN approved an initial seed fund of $2m to implement the recommendations of the JAS WG. Several interested persons -- Bruce Tonkin, Dennis Jennings, and the author, among others, independently thought that one or more Registry Service Platform (RSP) was a feasible form of providing support to the broad class of qualified applicants, meeting also the capacity building needs identified by the GAC participants in the contemporaneous ad hoc ALAC-GAC drafting party.
