Thank you Hanan for your questions.
  1. who is the committee that put the tough eligibility criteria? and why?
  2. who is us and who frighten us (you) ? why the program will be gamed? and who will put the criteria.
  3. Should it be mention in this document if so, I think we need to clarity it?
For the 2012 round, a large part of the community were continuously complaining about the amount of the application fees ($185 000), and argued that the new gTLD program won’t be accessible to underserved regions and disadvantaged communities. After several months of loud complaint, the ICANN Board decided that the community form a working group to address a support program to help applicants who need assistance for applying for and operating a new gTLD. This WG (Joint Applicant Support « JAS ») designed the whole Applicant Support Program ‘ASP) including the tough criteria we spoke about in the statement. I was member of this WG.
The WG put such criteria because some members were always warning us that the ASP will be gamed by those who are not in need of assistance who may have access to support if the criteria are flexible.

I hope I answered you questions.

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Le 27 sept. 2018 à 14:00, khatib hanan <hkhatib2000@yahoo.com> a écrit :


Dear Tijani,


Thanks to you and Nadira and to all who contributed  bring this document out.  however I have some questions : 
 what do you mean by this statement  : 

"We are aware of the failure of the Applicant Support Program (ASP) for the 2012 round that wasn’t efficient and didn’t permit to support any applicant. We also understand that it failed because the too tough eligibility criteria developed by the community were too tough under the pressure of those who always frighten us that the program will be gamed if we put flexible criteria."

  1. who is the committee that put the tough eligibility criteria? and why?
  2. who is us and who frighten us (you) ? why the program will be gamed? and who will put the criteria.
  3. Should it be mention in this document if so, I think we need to clarity it ?


I am Confused! I hope you can clarify for me...

Thank very much

Best Regards

Hanan Khatib

IT Consultant 


 


On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 11:15:32 AM GMT+3, Nadira Alaraj <nadira.araj@gmail.com> wrote:


Thank you Zakir,
In the following link you can find the statement and  all are welcome to comment either on this thread or in the document itself. 
If you are providing comments in the Google Doc, please start it with your name. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hz_brkSh8YdQmlXJkFbgtYYxZ4QkjMurwslwyu7hPY0/edit?usp=sharing
Best,
Nadira


On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:59 AM 'Zakir Syed' via MEAC SWG <icann-meac-swg@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Thank you Tijani,

Do we have a google doc version? Actually it would be easy to comment and provide feedback there and thn to organize.

Best,

Zakir


On Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 3:54:26 PM GMT+5, Tijani BEN JEMAA <tijani.benjemaa@topnet.tn> wrote:


Dear all,

Please find attached the first draft of the ME Statement for ICANN 63 that was developed by Nadira and myself.
Please provide your comments before 3 October 2018 at 23:59 UTC

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Le 4 sept. 2018 à 19:54, Tijani BEN JEMAA <tijani.benjemaa@topnet.tn> a écrit :


Dear all,
As we did for ICANN 60 and ICANN 61, we are planning to organize a ME Space at ICANN 63.
Can you please provide your preferred topic to be addressed by the ME Space in Barcelona? I think we have several choices since we are now commenting on the preliminary report of the new gTLD subsequent procedures PDP working group (open round or consecutive rounds, Universal acceptance, Application fees, Applicant support, Community applications, etc…). We have also the Geographic names.
Also, we have the EPDP working now and we may decide to provide our opinion as a region on several parts to the EPDP (data collection, processing, transfer, retention, and access to non public data). So we have a very large range of topics that we can choose to address.

Please give your preference by Monday 10 September 23:59 UTC.
This the timeline:
04 - 10 September: Call for topics
11 September:        Announcement of the selected Topic
11 - 15 September: Call for drafting team members
16 September:        Announcement of the drafting team and starting of drafting the statement
26 September         1st draft of the statement published & Opening of the comment period
03 October:             Closing of the comment period
04 - 08 October:      Drafting of the final version
09 October:             Final draft published   

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