<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;">By using a reasonable yet conservative volume and resulting fees of $220k, it allows the community to move forward in an expedient manner
without spending further cycles on the price, and being no further ahead in determining the expected volume. More transparency would allow the IRT and the wider community to support ICANN org more effectively, and was echoed frequently in the Final Report
and the PDP meetings. <o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;"> </font></o:p></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Just to drill a bit on what is in the Final Report:</div><div>"<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;">The development of the application fee must be fully transparent with all cost assumptions explained and documented.</span><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">”</span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3">It doesn’t give room to have less transparency because of any reason, including the mentioned issue of vendor negotiations leverage or any other reason for that matter. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3">AFAIK, this output was adopted unchanged by the ICANN Board. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3">Rubens</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><br></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div></body></html>