On the payment methods issue, the response was:

"The acceptable forms of payment have been added to the Handbook. These do not include LoC or insurance, per current ICANN procedure for accounts payable.”

While the current ICANN procedure for accounts payable do not include LoC or insurance, the ASP program is about going the extra mile to accommodate disfavored situations. So this shouldn’t be the metric to measure whether to offer such forms of payment.

Doing what ICANN already does and did will have the same outcome as in 2012.

Rubens

Em 12 de jun. de 2024, à(s) 11:34, Kristy Buckley <kristy.buckley@icann.org> escreveu:

Greetings ASP-IRT Sub-track members,

We'd like to share that version 2 of the draft ASP Handbook has been published on the ASP section of the Next Round website: https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/en/application-rounds/round2/asp/handbook

It is still version 2 (and not final) due to the remaining dependencies and bracketed text. Though, we anticipate many of those remaining dependencies will be resolved in the coming weeks following Board decisions and AGB dependency discussions with the IRT. The intent was to publish the latest version of the Handbook to the website following public comment to inform potential applicants as well as the start of communications, outreach, and engagement for ASP.

With regard to the additional questions and comments the sub-track provided following the public comment, I'm also attaching the set of additional comments received on-list along with ICANN org's response or action taken.

As noted last week, in light of timing constraints to get the draft Handbook posted to the ASP website, we anticipated that it may be difficult to address every additional comment received. We have done our best in the time available; if any of your previous comments or suggested were not yet addressed in version 2, they will be considered for version 3 of the ASP Handbook.

Please recall that we are still working on more significant structural changes to the Handbook--for instance, removing the criteria tables and replacing them with a simpler outline of criteria and indicators.

It has been lovely to see many of you here this week in Kigali. Many thanks for your continued commitment and enthusiasm for the ASP.

Kind regards,
Kristy, on behalf of the ASP Project Team

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