Thanks for the link of the study María. I just went over it. 90% of the RFP asks for a lot of pretty short time series of data I doubt exists in the region in a consistent statistical form , without any good suggested hypothesis to test (page 4). Again, how do you expect the number of registrations (in LatAm) to grow if the services are provided by a fee businesses in the north. Pretty much looking for regional suggestions for a problem caused elsewhere, as this thread has been suggesting over the last few days. Rafik, maybe we should try to draft a shirt summary of these complex set of questions for Dublin and maybe we could get some smarter responses from Board and GDD. Marilia, should we give it a try again from the political, distributional and commercial perspectives??? Any other volunteers from the north and the south? A nice Sunday to all. Carlos Raúl On Sep 29, 2015 8:24 AM, "Maria Farrell" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Funny you should mention that, Bill ... > > > > >> Yes the public interest research has been very internally oriented, >> pretty much surveying staff and docs. What will be needed next is a look >> at the world outside ICANN, how the concept has been employed in telecom >> and other sectors around the world, then think about whether any bits of >> that may be relevant by analogy etc. Frankly I think they should hire a >> couple hungry academics who do international telecom policy (not me), doing >> this properly will need a solidly researched information base. >> > > Just published, an RFP for DNS industry study: > https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-4-2015-09-25-en > > FYI-ing here in case anyone is interested. > > Maria > > >> >>