Hello, NCUC/SG has been having a rather lively debate on pricing and developing countries and there is a group forming that wants to look into this. Quite a few people have expressed interest in participating. Not clear whether it'd make sense for all of them to directly join the joint GNSO-ALAC effort or if we should run a parallel activity with a few representatives serving as connectors, TBD. Either way, there's definitely interest from our side.... Best, Bill On Mar 20, 2010, at 2:41 AM, Bruce Tonkin wrote:
Hello Chuck,
This is interesting Bruce. I had no idea that this motion was talking about financial support;
Well the focus of much of the public comment has been for the Board to reduce the application fees for developing countries.
The Board instead is saying that there are other ways of solving the issue of participation - and left it open for the community to put forward some proposals. It was my input (which I also stated during the Board meeting) - that it is not just financial support that may help, but also support in terms of resources. I gave the example that in the past, many smaller ccTLDS used secondary nameservers operated by larger ccTLDS in developed countries at no cost.
Regards, Bruce Tonkin
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