<html><head></head><body>Considering how cumbersome it is to establish a contract with ICANN, I see the only solution as pre-paying a contractor to look for and fix a set number of issues from target repositories.<br><br>While it is unorthodox, it is what is possible within the constraints we have to work with.<br><br>Regards,<br>-- <br>Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [www.markwd.website]<br>In partnership with AR-TARC and the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 9, 2019 10:02:24 PM GMT-03:00, John Levine <john.levine@standcore.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">In article <B71902F5-E139-40C5-BC8D-9DAA6507FCA9@techobscura.com> you write:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Mark<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">3. Offer developers a small amount of money, say $500 to motivate them to change their code. If we spent $1m on that I would regard it as a good investment. <br> Marksv>>> We don't know how to do this in the ICANN system due to contractual complexity.<br></blockquote>That was raised and the alternatives I suggested were 1) to pay someone to submit patches to as many projects as possible along with any reasonable ‘patch<br>processing fee’ or 2) pay someone to run a compliance bounty programme. Both of those are things we can contract out. <br></blockquote><br>I proposed a bounty program and ICANN said no.<br><br>See <a href="https://eaibounty.standcore.com/">https://eaibounty.standcore.com/</a><br><br>R's,<br>John<hr>By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance with the ICANN Privacy Policy (<a href="https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy)">https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy)</a> and the website Terms of Service (<a href="https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos).">https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos).</a> You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.</pre></blockquote></div></body></html>