Imposing URS adds compliance costs and risks for registrants of domain names, that does eventually impact end-users, as those regulatory costs/burdens get passed along. ICANN should not be imposing such policies in a top-down manner. The multi-stakeholder model only works when all impacted parties are represented at the table, and that's simply not been happening. These non-judicial processes are inherently undesirable, as they can lead to different outcomes than courts of law. End-users benefit when the rule of law is respected. ICANN should not be in the business of creating new laws. It's incorrect to say that ICANN staff is going to respect the outcome of the RPM PDP. For example, if the decision is that URS should *not* be a consensus policy, then will ICANN be eliminating it from the .org/biz/info/asia contracts? I think not. They'll claim that it's an "add on" that they've voluntarily entered into, even though it has direct impacts on registrants. As for pricing, the mission of PIR is irrelevant. .org registrants shouldn't be forced to subsidize one non-profit over their own preferred spending. Even PIR has a tender process for operation of its own back-end, and doesn't give its own suppliers a monopoly. The 4 registry operators have ample ability to raise prices a generous 10%/yr already, far above the rate of inflation, and far above their actual costs (which are on the order of USD $1/domain/year). Registrants of new gTLDs knew about the risk of unlimited price increases when they registered their domain names, but for these legacy TLDs, it's a drastic and unjustified change. Those ICANN policy errors for new gTLDs shouldn't be allowed to spread to legacy TLDs. Sincerely, George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/ On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 2:17 AM Greg Shatan <greg@isoc-ny.org> wrote:

All,

Here is a document to support our discussion of a possible comment on the renewal of the .ORG RA.

Best regards,

Greg

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