[NA-Discuss] Comment on GAC Scorecard (10.1)

[Eric Brunner-Williams]

ICANN as a lender, or a loan guarantor, is an interesting idea. If 
someone in NARALO has experience in setting up a 
rule-maker-with-lending-authority (yesterday I encountered a quip that 
previously $CORP was an auto maker that made loans to dealers and 
buyers, and now $CORP is a bank that makes cars), it would be good to 
put something together that ICANN legal can start to soak up.

Eric


On 3/18/11 9:15 AM, Danny Younger wrote:
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> Regarding the GAC Scorecard point #10.1 (on suitable provisions not to exclude stakeholders from developing countries from participating in the new gTLD process), the ALAC points the ICANN Board to the current level of the Reserve Fund (in excess of $50,000,000) and advises the Board to become the lender of last resort for needy applicants.  A loan program coordinated by ICANN would serve to respect the principle of cost recovery, and low or no interest terms for disadvantaged new gTLD applicants would serve the organization’s charitable interest.
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