In any case, the larger questions is this: Why is this any of ICANN's concern? Why can't a TLD operator create a product that has strength attributes and see what customers it can attract? Isn't that a better way to learn how to do it, to innovate, to adapt, than a pre-conceived design from on-high from ICANN?
I missed today's call, but the current process appears destined to produce yet another meaningless seal like TrustE. There's a guy who consults for the travel industry, and says they're very interested due to all the phishing and fake travel web sites. I pointed out that I've never seen a fake web site in .TRAVEL, so why don't they use that. Uh, because they like .COM. So why bother? Feel free to join in the fun, though. R's, John