Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] African statement

["Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 Aug 2010, at 11:38, Tijani BEN JEMAA wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> As promised during yesterday’s call, here are the key points of the African 
> statement:
>  
> ·        The following categories are eligible for support:
> o       Geographic, cultural, linguistic, ethnic, and more generally 
> community based applications
> o       Civil society, NGOs and not for profit applicants
> o       Entrepreneur applicants from countries, where the market is not wide 
> enough for a reasonable profit making industry.

Why should entrepreneurs get support from the ICANN community?

Sorry - I'm just not seeing that as being in scope

I don't have any issue with the others, but that one jars on me. If the 
business model isn't viable and doesn't fit into one of the other categories 
you listed, then why should we subsidise it?

Using the logic of the "market" and "profit" then I'd be eligible!

>  
> ·        The support should include, but is not limited to the following:
> o       Financial, by reducing the application and the on-going fees
> o       Linguistic, by translating all the application documents, especially 
> the Applicant Guidebook,  in the six UN languages
> o       Legal, by assisting the applicants in preparing their applications 
> properly.
> o       Technical, by
> §         Helping the applicants to define the infrastructure options,
> §         Addressing the issue of infrastructure problems such as IPV6, 
> DNSSEC etc.
>  
> ·        Cost reduction:
> o       Waiving the cost of Program Development ($26k).
> o       Waiving the Risk/Contingency cost ($60k).
> o       Lowering the application cost ($100k)
> o       Waiving the Registry fixed fees ($25k per calendar year), and charge 
> the Registry-Level Transaction Fee only at its minimum applied value ($xxx 
> per domain name registration or renewal).
>  
>       • The reduced cost to be paid incrementally
>  
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> Tijani BEN JEMAA
> Executive Director
> Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations
> Phone : + 216 70 825 231
> Mobile : + 216 98 330 114
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>  

Mr Michele Neylon
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