[CPWG] Applicant Support GGP (Task 3)

[Evan Leibovitch]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 10:07 AM Sarah T. Kiden via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org>
wrote:


> I hope you are doing well. As you may be aware, the Applicant Support
> Program was developed to ensure worldwide accessibility and competition in
> the 2012 new generic top-level domain (gTLD) Program. It enabled new gTLD
> applicants meeting certain qualifying criteria to receive financial and
> non-financial support.
>

Actually, it didn't enable anyone, there were zero successful applicants
under the original program. Much work was spent on the program with no
effective benefit (except for painful lessons learned by the team).

The GNSO Council determined that the provision of guidance for the next
> round is best accomplished via the GNSO Guidance Process (GGP).
>

How benevolent of them, considering that Applicant Support was started as
an ALAC/GAC initiative, initially with explicit LACK of GNSO support and in
some corners active hostility.

When did the GNSO acquire the ability to impose its "guidance" on the
Advisory Committees? I must have missed that direction in the Bylaws.

- Evan
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