Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Government eligibility for JAS support

[Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Without going back and looking at the report or 
the GAC/ALAC statement, my recollection is that 
we (the JAS group in its report) nixed all levels 
of government and I believe parastatal 
organizations (ones that are technically private 
but owned/controlled by government) and the 
GAC/ALAC statement said all should be allowed 
other that national governments (and by 
extrapolation, national government parastatals).
So, local, regional, state, province gov'ts would be allowed.

Clearly making the claim of poverty might be 
harder for some of these, but that is their problem (in my view).
Note that although I do have a personal view on 
this, I was not advocating anything, just saying 
that it was a loose end that we said we would tie up, so we should.
Alan

At 21/11/2011 10:57 AM, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:
> Alan
>
> So they're differentiating between local 
> government and national government? Or did I miss something?
> Regards
>
> Michele
>
>
> On 21 Nov 2011, at 15:50, Alan Greenberg wrote:
>
> >
> > The issue of government eligibility was left open in our report.
> >
> > The GAC had suggested that governments be 
> eligible with the exception of national governments.
> >
> > I do not recall that there was any 
> substantive objection to this from within the 
> JAS group (perhaps I was deaf to such objections though).
> >
> > I suggest one of two objections:
> >
> > - If there was/is substantive objection to 
> the GAC proposal, that those who object 
> document their problem with it, and we take a 
> consensus call to see if there is general 
> support for or against the GAC proposal.
> >
> > - If there is no substantive objection, then 
> I suggest that the JAS group issue an addendum 
> to the report saying that we agree with the GAC proposal.
> >
> > There are likely other options as well, but 
> regardless, we need to close this gap, and do it quickly.
> >
> > Alan
> >
>
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