[soac-newgtldapsup-wg] questions from JAS WG to staff - please review and approve.

[Karla Valente <karla.valente@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Carlton, Rafik,

Thank you for the call today in trying to determine the JAS WG questions to 
staff. Please see below what I have captured and let me know this is correct 
and can be passed on. Any additional specifics and clarifications to the points 
below is welcomed.

FINANCIAL - detailed breakdown of the $185K with comprehensive set of 
assumptions andd formulas made in order to deduce the current scheme. Such a 
detail breakdown must indicate how much of the $185K is allocated to:
cover the actual (ie, real time) cost to process the application

*         apply various tests and controls (ie contention) that may not be 
appropriate to JAS-qualified applications

*         repay costs of historic policy work

*         replenish the reserve fund for costs incurred by previous 
applications (ie, .XXX)

*         mitigate risk of lawsuits

*         fund any other relevant cost category

*         Auction costs details - can these be recovered in the auction 
process? If auctions can be applied to all applications even for applicants not 
subject to auction.

*         Insurance - to more efficiently address (and lower the cost of) risk 
provisioning.

*         Assuming that each application is taken separately, if two 
applications were packaged together (e.g. ASCII + IDN), the question is simple: 
what would be tjust he incremental technical costs of adding the IDN  to 
support underserved language communities


LEGAL

*         what is cost and nature of the legal work as a cost component?

Thank you,

Karla Valente
Director, gTLD Registry Programs
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
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