(During 4 hours struggle with the letters without significant output ...) A question has come to my mind and won't disappear... What are the future of "allocatable labels"? Let's assume the case where registrant-X applied for label-A, and label-B is marked as 'allocatable' by LGR, then, label-A is delegated to registrant-X. As far as I understand, the above means "only registrant-X has the right to apply for label-B in the future." If registrant-X wants label-B to be delegated, he/she needs to make a separate application to ICANN. And ICANN will evaluate the label-B by a human panel (maybe supported by some automatic mechanism). Then, what's the difference between (1) all variants are allocatable (2) some variants are allocatable and the others are blocked (or invalid) I understand (2) can make the applicant know that the application for some strings (that are blocked/invalid) will definitely be rejected in any case. However, this does not reduce the number of TLD delegations significantly because the applicant does want only a few variant TLDs in reality, for money-wise reason or usage-wise reason. then,,,,, why is (1) so evil? Hiro