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[Avri Doria]

Hi,

You make a good point.  And part of that is it it took us too long to get going.  Then again it took years to get something like JAS formed.  For a long time, the attempt was like banging our heads into a brick wall, until one day GAC listened and got interested.

But there is a followup from what you said, we could remediate by planning a special round just for 'JAS' outreach, try 2 - in a year or two, to start processing when the current round has been gone through.  While I thought it wrong to plan for support applicants to come in a later round, now that they missed the round, lets see if a specialized round can be put together.

Of course Evan may be right and no one will be interested,

avri

On 6 Jul 2012, at 21:31, Joly MacFie wrote:

> I actually asked a question about JAS at the Kenya IGF. Even as Ms.
> Munyua was trotting out her "awareness" answer, and further pointing
> out that the 3 JAS applicants were all from the existing community,
> the thought struck me that we/ICANN really should have anticipated
> this. I mean, are we really surprised?
> 
> The problem was essentially that it was just too much to bite off in
> the time given, and it could have been anticipated that the average
> JAS applicant would probably need an extra year to get themselves
> together. Being as ICANN already knew it'd be batching, and the JAS
> was by nature limited, why not give the program a healthy extension,
> and deal with them in good time. I can't think of one good reason they
> had to hit the same deadline as everyone else, except for contested
> strings, and I don't think any of those would merit support anyway.
> 
> j
> 
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
>> On 6 Jul 2012, at 17:11, McTim wrote:
>> 
>>> yes, but it is unclear to me if .africa and .dotafrica are similar
>>> enough strings that they will  be in contention.
>> 
>> 
>> The whole issue of similarity is the can of worms that is waiting to be opened.
>> Where along the spectrum from visual to semantic similarity things falls remains to be seen.
>> One of the exciting acts in this comedy of errors that has to hit the stage.
>> 
>> But do they really plan to run .dotafrica?
>> i thought it was being claimed as an error.
>> 
>> avri
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