Hi all, resending this, hopefully to the correct email address this time… The quyote I made fromthe TLD Agreement on the transition to EBERO is … welll, not that accurate, to be polite with myself ;-) Even if the Agreement says so in an indirect way in 2 places. The relevant section is 4.5, dealing with transition (to anotehr Registry or, if there is no such possibility to EBERO: this is implied but clear). And, more relevant for the exception it contains, in section 4.5 of the Spec 13, the specification for Brand TLDs(which typically have no third parties as registrants, but this is not always the case). I could only find Spec13 in PDF and one that does not allow me to paste here its content in readable way. So, jst check and savour the difference in the very end of the section. It grants an excpetion to Brand TLDs, saying that YtLD will NOT be transitioned to another registry (which includes EBERO) but simply deleted from the root and NOT delegated again for at least 2 years. but… but all this unless ICANN decides that there are public interest reasons for transitioning it. Which is the rule for all other non-Spec13, tLDs. and the reasning for this public interest is, indeed, the existance of independnet registrants and domains. This is not explained inthe text (how could lawyers earn their lives, if things were clear???) but everybody involved would tell you that this is what it nmeans. So, the rule for ICANN on a tLD Agreement termination is transitioning, aka redelegation. If not possible for any reason,then EBERO as an intermediate step. Direct deletion, i.e. not transitioning, is only posible for special TLDs without third party registrants(Brand TLDs, and not in all cases). Same should apply to our Latin Diacritic sets. I submit againthat NO voluntary deletion of any of the TLDs should be allowed, if domains for third party registrants doexist. And in the exceptional case in whcih ICANN must terminate the ASCII TLD for whtever reason…. well….. I cannot see how it could be simply be deleted without any transitioning priod… involving the same Registry or, sending all the TLDs to EBERO for quite some time. Amadeu