[council] FW: Proposal to form a Joint ALAC - GNSO WG "to develop a sustainable approach to providing support to applicants requiring assistance in applying for and operating new gTLDs" in response to the ICANN Board Resolution 20 at the Nairobi

[Fouad Bajwa]

Bill, I confide in what you said earlier and also agree that we should
first start or participate in the discussion before actually
influencing its outcome. We are pretty much sure on our concern about
pricing and in particularly with respect to developing countries and
regions and that one model does not fit all. Like I shared on various
occasions that even the global policy making is tending to take a
shift towards the UN Human Development Index
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/

If we take a look at the developing region, the interests of internet
users whom I represent comes under the 3rd heading of medium developed
and the highly developed category only applies to 38 developed
countries. Many multilateral and bilateral pricing structure/trading
negotiations take place according to this index and it should be used
by ICANN by all means to determine pricing structures.


On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:59 PM, William Drake
<william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Rafik Dammak wrote:
>
>> Thanks Bill, but I think that Bruce really highlighted that the board don't really discussing about the pricing according to the resolution.
>
> You're right, let's give up on trying to influence an open ended discussion before it even starts because the board did not specifically request that people start it by considering the underlying issue or the solution least favored by staff, contracted, etc.
>
> You have an interesting approach to politics!
>
> Bill
>



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Regards.
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Fouad Bajwa