Page 21: You say that it’s not clear how to find objective indicators to evaluate the lake of well-developed DNS industry or economy (GAC definition of “under-served”). Isn’t the number of registries/registrars/resellers/…. In the considered country/region/territory enough to demonstrate it?

Not necessarily, Tijani. Let’s take the example of Brazil: there are 0 ICANN-Accredited registrars in the country, even with a population of 200M+. Does that make Brazil underserved ? In fact not, because most domains registered in the country are from the local ccTLD and ICANN has no way to measure the cc space. I do believe Brazil to be an underserved country due to low per capita GDP, but its local DNS industry is strong and more similar to UK or Germany.

Page 21: Principal place of business for applicants from less developed economies: in my opinion, all officers should be from and live in the place of business and not the largest number of them only.

Curiously, two of our officers were born abroad (one in Italy, one in Germany), so that would automatically disqualify us… not that we will be applying to ASP (we don’t qualify since already being a contracted party), but its just anecdotal evidence that org (I’m trying to use the new style of ICANN org instead of ICANN Org) is suggesting a good trade-off here.