I note that the registrars were quick to pick up on the intent behind the registries position paper. Here are the comments of Adrien Kinderis: Chuck, Thanks for posting this. Just so I am clear. "RyC believes that a key means of avoiding this problem is to allow all manifestations of a given top level domain to be managed by a single entity. This simple solution will also address the second issue: ensure that each TLD name always means the same thing." Which one(s) of the following is therefore true in the further explanation you (the RyC) have provided; a. No one, other than Verisign, could have a TLD (ascii or IDN) that looks like .com b. No one , other than Verisign, could have a TLD (ascii or IDN) that sounds like .com c. No one, other than Versign, could have a TLD (ascii ot IDN) that means the same as .com I think examples will help explain the RyC paper. Thanks and see you later today (?) Adrian Kinderis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com