[soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Adobe Connect Chat 19.04.11 - Chat Transcript from Joint SO/AC WG on New gTLD Applicant Support

[Gisella Gruber-White <Gisella.Gruber-White@xxxxxxxxx>]

>  Gisella Gruber-White:Welcome to the JAS WG call on Tuesday 19 April 2011
>  Evan Leibovitch:hi there. sorry I can't be there by voice
>  Evan Leibovitch:sitting in a conference, triple tasking
>  Tijani BEN JEMAA:Cintra, did you see my comments on the wiki?
>  Cintra Sooknanan:yes...
>  Cintra Sooknanan:they bar
>  Cintra Sooknanan:they are good
>  Cintra Sooknanan:sorry was trying to type with one hand
>  Cintra Sooknanan::)
>  Gisella Gruber-White:Andrew Mack has joined the call
>  Rahman Khan:ok now
>  Dev Anand 
>Teelucksingh:https://community.icann.org/display/jaswg/JAS+Issues+and+Reco
>mmendations
>  Evan Leibovitch 2:II see your comments, Tijani. Thanks! I will try to
>integrate them pending what happens in this call
>  Cintra Sooknanan:Note that in the Milestone Report the WG agreed by
>consensus that Applicants who are financially eligible or needy must not
>benefit from more than 50% of the reduced fee provided by ICANN,
>therefore the Applicant must be able to meet its self-financing
>responsibility for at least 50% of the reduced fee. No limits have been
>imposed to the manner in which fundraising for the other 50% of the
>reduced fee is done by the financially eligible or needy Applicant.
>  Cintra Sooknanan:Local entrepreneurs who otherwise meet other criteria
>in this section, in markets where market constraints make normal business
>operations challenging. These could include emerging markets companies
>and partnerships with a market capitalization of under [xxx].
>  Cintra Sooknanan:Each Application requesting such support must have
>explicit endorsement from within the language community to be served.
>This support must come from organizations, NGOs and/or local companies
>from within the langauage/script community. The lead applicant would not,
>necessarily, need to be from the community to be served assuming other
>conditions for support were met. (Consensus of the WG in the Milestone
>Report S.2.2.1)
>  Carlos Dionisio Aguirre:I agree with Tijani
>  Andrew Mack:But is the "local entrepreneurs" bit clear?
>  Cintra Sooknanan:Purely Governmental or para-statal applicants were
>listed as those applicants Not entitled to receive support as approved by
>full consensus of the WG and documented in the Milestone Report. However,
>at the ICANN San Francisco meeting the WG received a request from the GAC
>WG to consider including Government applications from Developing
>Countries for support. The WG will work to obtain a mutually acceptable
>definition and criteria to fit Government applications with the GAC WG,
>but recognises the difficulty in measuring a government¹s ³need² and
>concern of the appropriateness of offering support for one government
>over another if resources are limited. The GAC WG has offered to review
>the JAS criteria and provide its recommendations on a formulation of a
>solution for possible support to Developing Country Government
>applications.
>  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:the "local entrepreneurs" part is not clear to
>me. I'll look forward to understanding this more after the call
>  Tijani BEN JEMAA:Dev, it's better explained in the milestone report
>  Cintra Sooknanan:yes
>  Cintra Sooknanan:Local entrepreneurs who otherwise meet other criteria
>in this section, in markets where market constraints make normal business
>operations challenging. These could include emerging markets companies
>and partnerships with a market capitalization of under [xxx].
>  Tijani BEN JEMAA:€    Local entrepreneurs in those countries where
>market constraints make normal business operations more difficult
>  Andrew Mack:Agree Dev.  I know we want to leave it open to possible
>applications from selected groups organized as companies and
>partnerships.  Our language just needs to be clear.
>  Cintra Sooknanan:Community-based applications. Community groups such as
>cultural, linguistic and ethnic groups may be eligible to receive
>support. 
>  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:@Tijani I did see it in the milestone report
>that phrase, but the phrase "Applicants located in emerging
>markets/nations" seemed to cover that
>  Cintra Sooknanan:Applications in scripts whose presence on the web is
>limited. For the purposes of this program, under-representation would be
>defined as a having less than [20 million] users (?).  not include
>languages already being built out.  The #10 language on the web, Korean,
>currently has some 40M users. Each Application requesting such support
>must have explicit endorsement from within the language community to be
>served. This support must come from organizations, NGOs and/or local
>companies from within the langauage/script community. The lead applicant
>would not, necessarily, need to be from the community to be served
>assuming other conditions for support were met. (Consensus of the WG in
>the Milestone Report S.2.2.1)
>  CLO:Let's  starte off from 3.4  at the next call  then...
>  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:more weight?
>  Cintra Sooknanan:yes
>  CLO:I for one  think more needs to be dioscussed at this point in thr
>process
>  Cintra Sooknanan:Thank you Rafik
>  Andrew Mack:Thank you Cintra
>  Cintra Sooknanan:thank you everyone
>  Cintra Sooknanan::)
>  Dev Anand Teelucksingh:Take care
>  Rahman Khan:thank you everyone and take care