Hi, On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 06:36:23AM +0100, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
"The IETF Trust reserves the right to require the Licensee or the requesting OC to pay out of pocket costs for any additional registrations, which will be owned by the Trust."
Considering that the COs already remunerate the licensee in one way or the other for IANA services, I thought it might be neater for the licensee[ICANN] to be the one handling any out of pocket cost for new registrations instead of having COs deal with the trust directly on that.
I see. Well, this bit is really an attempt to protect the Trust from a whole bunch of requests to register things. So who bears the cost is part of the point: if you want 1000 new mark registrations all over the world, then you will have to do the cost-benefit analysis of the value because you'll pay the costs. Otherwise, the incentives are misaligned. To be clear, while I am a Trustee I'm not speaking for it here. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com