I can't speak on behalf of ALAC, but I can say why I opposed the "look at the 100k item" initially in the WG and later supported the ALAC recommendation to exclude it from the new Charter. I strongly believe that reductions in this component are warranted for some select group of disadvantaged applicants. But I believe that if ICANN does this, it will be from a willingness to help such applicants (or perhaps more important, their planned TLDs). This is for two reasons: - the original development of the $100k involved, among other things, a complex statistically-based simulation of various possibilities. Even if it was incorrectly done, we are not likely to be able to identify the flaw in any post-analysis that we can do; - I believe that there are Board members who are more likely to reject our entire package if questioning the $100k is a major component. Alan At 03/04/2011 09:18 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
On the other hand that is not a reason, at least not for me, to delay or cancel the program. But it is why I spend hours and hours on the Support Wg for applicants from developing economies (JASWG) issues.
ALAC on the other hand probably didn't agree, since they removed the work item from the JASWG charter that involved investigating the 100KUSD segment of the fee to see where further reductions for applicants from developing regions might be justified.