Beau, Passing on the process issue external to the NARALO, I have a few thoughts on the substance of the issue. The parties representing that they can, in conditional the future, perform registrations, if registrars, and bound under either the pre-2009 RAA, or the 2009 RAA, are required to provide the registration policy. Failure to do so is a compliance issue, which can lead to non-renewal or loss of accreditation. Additionally, given the allocation mechanisms the corporation selected where contention exists, and the absence of certainty that applications will be submitted, and not also be subject to allocation under a contention rule, the claim that any party may make, including a contracted party, that they will have some contractual relationship with a delegation holder is first, fictional, and second, subject to third-party interference. The more I think on this, the clearer it seems to me that "pre-registration" is consumer fraud, and harms applicants, and the appropriate course of action to urge ICANN to carry out its compliance obligations, to urge the regional law enforcement agencies that their consumer fraud missions include sales and "gifts" of inextant claims on applicants, and to inform applicants that third parties may not, proactively, make claims upon them for their inventory or their good will, without compensation. Eric