This means that every single day over a million domain names are kept out of the reach of the average potential registrant as a result of the efforts of professional speculators that are taking advantage of ICANN's Add Grace policy loophole.
It seems to me that more relevant to the vast majority of at large users who don't register domains is that this means that every day there's a million domains that don't mean what they did yesterday. This makes everything from e-mail address books to search engines less useful and less usable. The issues report didn't really address this.
There have been many calls to eliminate or seriously revise this Add Grace period policy, yet the GNSO has not taken this issue on board; neither has the ALAC advanced this issue to the GNSO even after having received a staff-prepared Issues report six months ago.
Yes, there's no doubt we're slow, for a variety of reasons some of which are more apparent from the outside than others. I hope we can shove it forward by Lisbon. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.