Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Capturing feedback from today's face-to-face

[Alain Berranger <alain.berranger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings all,

Would it be desirable for ICANN or the WG to consider the
feasibility/desirability to help out with the incubation and
capacity-building of an RSP in Africa or Latin America for instance? This
may interest a few of the ICT4D donors, social investors and foundations. We
may even find funding interest for a continental (say pan-african or
LAC-wide) and/or a global approach to the feasibility of RSPs in developing
economies.

Alain

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I think the issue of registrars is critical and think it is something the
> JAS should work on.
>
> However, it is not critical for the application phase of the project but
> rather for the implementation phase.  We will have time to work on this
> issue, approximately 28 months, after the work that needs to be completed in
> order for there to be assistance in the applicants for new Registries.
>
> In the meantime figuring out how we can help JAS qualified applicants setup
> registries that do not have to rely on incumbent Registry Service Providers,
> most all in the developed world, seems to me to be a more critical problem.
>  I am very afraid that helping JAS qualified applicants use developed nation
> RSPs, risks transferring developing economy raw resources, their cultural
> and linguistic strings, into the control of the incumbents.  This may be a
> reasonable choice for some applicants, but at his point, there is no choice
> but to do so.
>
> a.
>
>
>
>
> On 23 Jun 2011, at 12:05, ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> > Colleages,
> >
> > Mouhamet Diop suggested that the scope of assistance to applicants
> > include the issue of the sales channels the applicants will have as
> > registry operators, independent of the selection of registry platform
> > service provider.
> >
> > There was spirited discussion, and as a participant I hope I'm not
> > doing an injustice to the participants who expressed the concern
> > that registrars are out of scope, or can come later. In my view
> > registrars in developing economies are useful, possibly necessary,
> > and need starting as soon as possible, selling existing inventories,
> > and building local presence as an alternative to North American and
> > European registrars as default registrars.
> >
> > I propose that we submit through our co-chairs to the sponsoring
> > organizations statements to the effect that supporting applicants
> > in developing economies extends to the market channels available
> > also in developing economies, possibly local to the applicant as
> > an eventual registry operator.
> >
> > Eric
> >
>
>
>


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