No suggestion whatsoever to open up the purposes of Auction proceeds within this group. In any event, public comment on that report is welcome and the report may inform some who argue the public purpose of ICANN’s role. In my personal opinion, Applicant Support certainly fits within those purposes, even if the grant requested amounts solely to a grant for purposes of developing a business plan, or preparing an application, etc. The more public comment we get in CCWG Auction Proceeds, the better. The issue of operating the newgTLD program on a “cost recovery” basis is an argument for refunding any Auction Proceeds to applicants rather than continuing any sort of public purpose grant-making for proceeds of ICANN-supervised auctions. (Contracted parties might prefer refunds rather than use of the funds for public benefit purposes such as Applicant Support, but please note there are also purposes listed in the Proposed Final Report that could easily benefit contracted parties as well – e.g. universal acceptance projects.) This would all be up to the Independent Evaluation Panel, so long as grants stay within ICANN’s Mission. Anne From: Gnso-newgtld-wg <gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org> On Behalf Of Rubens Kuhl Sent: Monday, January 13, 2020 9:44 AM To: gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org Subject: Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] ICANN's Use of Auction Proceeds - Proposed Final Report - CCWG Auction Proceeds - Public Comment due February 14 (this whole e-mail sent not in my capacity as a member of the leadership team) Does the WG feel a good and compelling reason to make the auction proceeds handling for subsequent procedures different from what is being decided for the 2012 round ? This is a very hard discussion within the community, and I don't see a good reason to decide differently. There is a different matter which is the positive or negative result of the regular application fees versus program costs, which was a problem in 2012 that is in high need of a better solution, but for auction funds, I believe the years-long discussion shouldn't be reopened by this WG. Rubens Em 13 de jan de 2020, à(s) 13:38:000, Aikman-Scalese, Anne <AAikman@lrrc.com<mailto:AAikman@lrrc.com>> escreveu: Dear new gTLD WG members, To the extent that today’s policy discussion on resolution of string contention sets involved policy issues around what ICANN will do with Auction Proceeds from ICANN-supervised auctions, please see the attached Proposed Final Report of the CCWG- Auction Proceeds which emphasizes the Objectives and purposes for which such funds can be used. Public comment is due February 14 so please do comment. 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