[governance] new gTLDs for ICBCs of DgEc DdEc - Call for IGC Statement

Sat Jul 2 03:23:41 EDT 2011

IGC CS Members,

Review comments are invited to address the important issue of core internet
infrastructure foundation (in above context of ICANN's Board resolution # 20
of Nairobi meeting) to review the new gTLD program for expanding
participation for Internet user Communities and Business user Constituencies
of Developing Economies (IC/BC of DgEc) keeping in front the comprehension
of negative influence and impact of Internet user Communities and Business
user Constituencies of Developed Economies (IC/BC of DdEc).

Reference context is the abstract from ICANN's following Resolution (#20) of
Nairobi Meeting:

"...to develop a sustainable approach to providing support to applicants
requiring assistance in applying for and operating new gTLDs."

Joint Working Group composed of members of ICANN's Supporting Organizations
(SOs) and Advisory Committees (ACs) also known as the JAS WG was formed in
late April 2010. JAS WG issued its first Milestone Report on 11 Nov 2010
(http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/jas-milestone-report-11nov10-en.pd
f) and thereafter public comments consultation process was carried out but
after extending comments period for +25 days only two comments were
submitted from Africa.
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-11nov10-en.htm

The main comprehension was quoted by African Community was that ".all of the
most obvious names, including IDNs, will be taken by rich investors, leaving
little opportunity to local community institutions and developing country
entrepreneurs.".

Now public comments are requested concerning the Second Milestone Report
(Revised ver. 13 May 2011
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/jas-second-milestone-report-09may11
-en.pdf), which deals with a very important issue: "How can ICANN assist
applicants from developing economies increase their participation in the new
generic Top-Level Domain (New gTLD) Program?". The public comments period
will be closed on 29th July 2011.

Previous discussion thread title subject were "RE: [governance] Details on
the ICANN JAS WG MR2 report was." and "Re: [] Can Icann really be
necessary?".

This discussion at IGC CS forum is started by Ivar A. M. Hartmann, asking
for the influence of the Civil Society and comments contributed by other
members.

<previous successful experience about ICANN's Policy Development through
different forums including the ICANN's main source to listen "Public
Participation through Public Comments">

"With reference to my past experience with ICANN, it was I who convinced
them to reduce the cost of the IDN ccTLD to $26,000 and even more the full
funding support to developing countries and territories. In order to
convince, I had to keep writing to ICANN, submitting the public comments as
well as a review of the financial analysis to the relevant department. I
insisted on the points that were related to underdeveloped countries that
instead of developing the Operating System, Browser, text writer and
Application utilities in the local languages due to constraint of IT budgets
and technical support, how they would be able to pay the huge amount as a
fee for the namespace that may not be utilized without infrastructure and
text editors capabilities. I asked them for not only provide them IDN TLD
mechanism but also support them with the registry management at the ICANN's
end, the L-Root Server. At the end, when the Fast Track round was launched,
fortunately and interestingly, along with some other proposals; these were
also adopted by offering the applicants from developing countries to request
for the 100% waiver of this application fee. Later on UNESCO & ICANN has
developed a partnership channel to provide technical support to the
countries for establishment of IDN framework and to Promote Linguistic
Diversity on Internet. (Imran)"

<The main abstract of above discussion threads will be included here>.

<new review comments on milestone reports may please be added here:

<review on 1st milestone report>

<review on 2nd milestone report>

Thanking you and Best Regards

Imran Ahmad Shah

Executive Member & Founder

Urdu Internet Society/ Council

Internet Governance of Pakistan

-----Original Message-----
From: governance at lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf
Of Roland Perry
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 08:24 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Details on the ICANN JAS WG MR2 report was Re: []
Can Icann really be necessary?

In message < <mailto:700EE5D8-AD3A-485C-8901-C437081EC472 at ella.com>
700EE5D8-AD3A-485C-8901-C437081EC472 at ella.com>, at 11:09:30 on Mon, 27 Jun
2011, Avri Doria < <mailto:avri at ella.com> avri at ella.com> writes

>- the Government Advisory Group has recommended the 76% figure.

> Of $186KUSD, this is approx $44.6KUSD, ergo $45KUSD.

I wasn't following this blow by blow, but presumably the GAC proposed a 75%
discount, which would give a fee of $46.5K, then someone suggested rounding
it down to $45k. Of which 76% is the nearest integer percentage.

--

Roland Perry

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