Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] continuity of operations funding requirement

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Restricting the instrument to a currency which requires conversion to 
create, and conversion to consume during a continuity event is avoidable.
Similarly, restricting the legal form of the instrument to a 
jurisdiction remote to the actual execution of the continuity function 
is avoidable.
I've always thought of this as a "Delaware Incorporation, US Dollars" 
hidden cost in the DAG. If the applicant is a Delaware Corporation (or 
more broadly, incorporated in the US and a few other jurisdictions) 
and its working currency is US or Canadian dollars or Euros, then 
there is negligible _extra_ cost to obtaining in the instrument 
itself. If the applicant is not in "Greater Delaware" using 
dollars-or-euros, then the _extra_ cost to obtaining the same 
financial instrument is non-negligible.
This is independent of the length of time the instrument is intended 
to provide continuity for, Danny's 3m to 6m figure, or Staff's 3y to 
5y figure, or the actual cost, my "hard to measure" for 
mid-five-figures and below or any other estimate (and I don't know of 
any other, except the implied one in the $25,000/yr recurring cost as 
a Marina del Rey cost-recovery for staffing each contract).
Eric

On 8/11/10 11:41 PM, Richard Tindal wrote:
> I agree that the 3 year continuity instrument could reasonably be reduced.
>
> That would represent a good cost saving for applicants
>
> RT
>
>
> On Aug 11, 2010, at 7:54 AM, Tijani BEN JEMAA wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> > As I said in a previous mail, and even if it’s a general issue that
> > affects all applicants, not only the needy ones, the 3 to 5 years
> > continuity of operations funding requirement should be addressed by
> > our working group because the eligible applicant to the support
> > would be the most affected by this too heavy financial load that has
> > to be secured at the application step.
> > As well explained by Danny younger in his comment, the 3 to 5 years
> > continuity period required by the DAG doesn’t comport with the
> > recommendations of the ICANN gTLD registry Failover plan that calls
> > for a timeframe of a duration of 1 to 3 months. Danny proposed a
> > period of 6 months (realistic period, much greater than the failover
> > plan’s one).
> > I do support Danny’s proposal, and would like this issue to be
> > reflected in our final report.
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> > [mailto:owner-soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx] *De la part de*
> > Gisella Gruber-White
> > *Envoyé :* mercredi 11 août 2010 09:04
> > *À :* SOAC-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx
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> > *Objet :* [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] MP3 recording of the JAS work
> > group/ 10 August 2010
> >
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Please find the MP3 recording of the Joint SO/AC WG on New gTLD
> > Applicant Support work group call held Tuesday 10 August 2010 at
> > 1300 UTC at:
> > http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-jas-20100810.mp3
> >
> > On page:
> > http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#aug
> > (transcripts and recordings are found on the calendar page)
> >
> > *Participants on the Call:
> >
> > ALAC
> > *Evan Leibovitch – Co-Chair
> > Cheryl Langdon-Or - ALAC chair
> > Sebastien Bachollet - ALAC
> > Carlos Aguirre - At Large
> > Baudoin Schombe – At Large
> > Tijani Ben Jemaa - AFRALO - At large
> > *
> > GNSO
> > *Avri Doria - NCSG
> > Rafik Dammak - NCSG - Council liaison
> > Andrew Mack – CBUC
> > Tony Harris – ISPCP
> >
> > Elaine Pruis - Mindsandmachines
> >
> > Richard Tindal – Individual
> >
> > Michele Neylon - RrSG
> >
> > *ICANN staff
> > *Karla Valente
> > Olof Nordling
> > Gisella Gruber-White
> >
> > *Apologies:
> > *Alan Greenberg – ALAC
> > Alex Gakuru – NCSG
> > Erick Brunner Williams - Individual
> >
> > ** Please let me know if your name has been left off the list **
> >
> > The mailing list public archives can be viewed at:
> >
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> > <http://forum.icann.org/lists/soac-newgtldapsup-wg>
> > _
> > Let me know if you have any questions.
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Gisella
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > Gisella Gruber-White
> > On behalf of GNSO Secretariat
> > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
> >
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