Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Action points - JAS WG call 8 June

[Elaine Pruis <elaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Tijani for your comments.
> Proposal 1: how can we say that the number of supported applicants  
> will not exceed 7 or any other figure? What are the tools that we  
> used to estimate this number?
I changed "seven" to "several".  I thought it was peculiar that the  
net profit was easily dividable by 26k.
> I propose to say simply that the net profit of 184,600 can be used  
> to fully or partially compensate the loss of waiving the programme  
> development cost.
I added the "fully or partially" language.

> Proposal 2: I propose to replace “$185K” by “application fees”  
> because we are asking for fees reduction, so if we manage to get  
> reduction, the fees wouldn’t be $185k. and the progressive payment  
> will be one of our recommendation even with a reduced fee.
Removed $180 and replaced with Fee
> Proposal 3: As it was said during the discussion, auction incomes  
> are really uncertain. And if they can be of any use, it will be for  
> the next rounds. It was also said in the discussion that our mandate  
> is for the current round, not for the next ones. So I propose to  
> remove Proposal 3.
The proposal is that auction fees could be allocated to disadvantaged  
applicants so they may repay loans (for the current round).  I've left  
this as is.
> Proposal 4: I propose to replace “by 50%” by “to the minimum amount  
> used today by ICANN” since there are some that almost don’t pay it  
> now.
A quick review (http://www.icann.org/en/registries/agreements.htm,  
look under 7.2 fees to ICANN) of the most recent gTLD contracts shows  
that "the minimum required by ICANN" in other contracts"  is more than  
$.25/ name or $12,500 / year.
.Tel pays at least US$12,500 per quarter- $50k annual
.post $6,250- $25k annual
.Asia just sent a request for lowering their fees from $.75 per  
transaction per quarter to $.50/name. January reports show 18,00  
transactions for that month... so extrapolating that we get $90,600/ 
year  at the reduced rate of $.50/name.
.cat Fixed Registry-Level Fee US$2,500 for each quarter + $1.00/ 
transaction fee per quarter. $10k/year + roughly $45k/year
Some ccTLDs (most likely those that do not participate in the ccNSO or  
the ICANN community) don't pay any fees to ICANN-but they don't have  
contracts nor use escrow etc.  As Richard pointed out, The current DAG  
pricing of " $25K per year (more if the registry has >50K names) is to  
cover the cost of ICANN operationally managing the TLD,  as well as  
administratively managing the relationship with the registry operator."
I'm on the fence here, does anyone else have input on this proposal 4?

Elaine


> For proposal 1 and proposal 5, since the resolution 20 speaks about  
> the “application and on-going costs” only, we can easily ask for  
> waiving the programme development and the risk costs.

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> De : owner-soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx 
> ] De la part de Elaine Pruis
> Envoyé : vendredi 11 juin 2010 17:00
> À : Olof Nordling
> Cc : soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx
> Objet : Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Action points - JAS WG call 8 June
>
> Thank you Olof.
>
> Attached is a document with the first version of the WT1 snapshot.   
> Working Group, please submit any edits/additions/suggestions so we  
> have a mostly complete document in time for our call Tuesday, and  
> posting on Wednesday.
> Olof, would you please upload this to the WIKI?
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