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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-NZ link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Alexander,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>As much as I like the dutch auction way of resolving things, your proposal heavily favours one particular applicant type – the ones with the most funding. Having access to the most cash should not be the priority factor that determines who gets to be in the 1,000 (or whatever the limit may be).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Prefer Jeff’s suggestion – proceed on the basis of no limit to delegation amounts and recommend policy around that. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Tim <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> Gnso-newgtld-wg [mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alexander Schubert<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 27 January 2018 4:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] ICANN Org's Input on the Rate of Delegation of gTLDs<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Easy solution:<br><br>If only 1k applications will be processed per year – and we want to have the 3<sup>rd</sup> round after latest 1 year after the 2<sup>nd</sup> round – then we can’t have more than 1k applications!<br><br>To get no more than 1k applications we could simply apply a Holland auction based application fee model that stops to take applications at 1,000:<br>1st 3 days applications cost US $500k!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>2<sup>nd</sup> 3 days they are US $400k!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>That goes on until we have either 1k applications or the desired future application fee (e.g. US $150k).<br><br>Obviously only AFTER all applications are in we start to look at contention sets! So applying for .silly at 500k doesn’t trump .silly applied for at 200k!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Then after one year: Rinse and repeat!<br><br>Thoughts?<br><br>Alexander Schubert<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> Gnso-newgtld-wg [<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org">mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeff Neuman<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 26, 2018 4:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> Aikman-Scalese, Anne <<a href="mailto:AAikman@lrrc.com">AAikman@lrrc.com</a>>; 'Steve Chan' <<a href="mailto:steve.chan@icann.org">steve.chan@icann.org</a>>; <a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] ICANN Org's Input on the Rate of Delegation of gTLDs<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Anne,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>One of the issues we have is that there is no policy on this. There was a declaration by the ICANN Board before the last round that the number of new gTLD delegations be limited to no more than 1000 per calendar year. That was not a policy decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>We still have the “Chicken and the egg” problem here. If there is a limit on the number of delegations per year, that will certainly influence the policies and procedures we set. On the other hand, the policies and procedures that we set may limit the number of delegations that can happen in any given year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>At this point, I think we need to determine what our policies should be in an ideal world without any limits to the number of delegations that could occur in a given year (assuming that ICANN Org will staff up to meet those requirements). Once we present those policy recommendations, if we get information from ICANN Org or elsewhere that those recommendations will result in limits, we can address at that point. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Does everyone agree?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0F9347'>Jeffrey J. 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(Rate of change to the root could be too high if all 1,000 were added in one month or one quarter.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>The letter seems to indicate that the controlling variable is going to be human resources/processing time for applications rather than root instability on technical grounds, while at the same time pointing out there are lots of uncontrolled variables.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Hard to see how we could base a policy change on this information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Anne<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=336 valign=top style='width:252.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#AF272F'>Anne E. 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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Gnso-newgtld-wg [<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org">mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Chan<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 25, 2018 2:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Gnso-newgtld-wg] ICANN Org's Input on the Rate of Delegation of gTLDs<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dear WG and WT4 Members,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Attached, please find ICANN Org’s response to the letter received from this PDP WG, available here: <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/doria-neuman-to-conrad-atallah-14sep17-en.pdf">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/doria-neuman-to-conrad-atallah-14sep17-en.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>This letter has been added to the PDP WG’s Wiki here (<a href="https://community.icann.org/x/Xz2AAw">https://community.icann.org/x/Xz2AAw</a>) for WT4, as well as here (<a href="https://community.icann.org/x/3B5yB">https://community.icann.org/x/3B5yB</a>) for the PDP WG’s overall receipt of correspondence: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>In addition, this letter will be posted to ICANN Org’s Correspondence page in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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