[Gnso-newgtld-wg] Notes and Action Items - New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG - 07 October 2019

[Volker Greimann]

Aha.

Many organizations that might conceivably want or feel entitled to 
launch an objection are underfunded. Should ICANN therefore fund any 
organization without money  "commensurate with the number of 
applications received"?

Unless ALAC is granted a special objector role, funding should not be 
contemplated. ALAC can voice the concerns of the internet users without 
raising a formal objection. Or it could raise the money required from 
its constituents or others that share its concerns. Just like anyone else.

Am 22.10.2019 um 07:53 schrieb Justine Chew:
> I now wish to relay the ALAC's response on the matter of its ability 
> to file both Limited Public Interest Objections and Community 
> Objections in Subsequent Procedures, as well as appeals against any 
> DRSP decisions dismissing the ALAC's filed Objections. The response is 
> as follows:
>
>     The ALAC has no funding ability beyond that supplied by ICANN. It
>     is not feasible for the ALAC to raise funds to finance an appeal
>     (or objection) or to bear costs under a “loser pays” model if its
>     appeal is unsuccessful.
>
>     Any withholding of ICANN funding for the ALAC to file objections
>     and/or appeals would be tantamount to denying ALAC the ability to
>     fulfill its duty under the Bylaws as the primary organisational
>     constituency for the voice and concerns of the individual Internet
>     user.
>
>     As to any contemplated limits to the number of appeals or quantum
>     of ICANN funding to ALAC in light of ICANN budgetary constraints,
>     the ALAC believes that its ICANN funding must be commensurate with
>     number of applications received.
>
>     The question of standing for the ALAC to file an objection and
>     appeal is beyond the scope of the Subsequent Procedures PDP WG. It
>     is a question for the ALAC to consider and the Dispute Resolution
>     Service Provider and Appeals Arbiter to determine in respect of an
>     objection and appeal, respectively.
>
-- 
Volker A. Greimann
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