First a little humor. As U.S. actor-turned-President Ronald Reagan liked to say: “There you [I] go again”.

I would like to approach the issue of Mechanisms and Costs in a reverse order. If we start from the deliverables, they are the same for each Mechanism, and baring different Mechanisms facing different prices for similar skills, the overall dollar costs should be about the same. Thus, costs probably should not be a deciding factor in ranking preferences for Mechanisms A, B, and C. All three options will be approached of course with “…a best practice approach with a prudent and modest administrative cost allocation.”

There may be some cost savings from Mechanism B depending on how partner expertise is costed out, and there may be some one-time additional cost to set up a Foundation for Mechanism C. ICANN services and staff provided for Mechanism A (and B) would probably be costed competitively to those provided by others within Mechanisms B and C. 

In my view a best practice approach to making the Mechanism choice is to complete this Work Phase focused on the complicated issues we have explored, what we want the Mechanism to do, and how we want it to work. This is then handed off to the Implementation Phase, along with comments (and questions) about the issues relevant for ranking A, B and C. These might include elapsed time to implementation (i.e., how long to the first round of grant applications), prospects for receiving additional funds from other sources, (to do more things or do things longer) and the like.

In this scenario the Implementation Phase would be where the Mechanism choice was identified, and then subject to whatever ICANN stakeholder approval process is appropriate. If we are to make that choice at this Work Phase, we need to make a list of the factors, other than costs, about what evidence we need to assess, and what decisions (e.g. open to supplemental funding) need to be made before ranking the Mechanisms.

Sam L.

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