Two things I would like everyone to consider for the meeting today: 1) It is possible that ICANN is employing a common variation of the "contrast principle". What they are possibly doing is asking for much more money than they would expect to get (or need), with the hopes that we are pleasantly surprised to find that we are only going to have our fees DOUBLE in the end (and we end up thanking them). After all, if they started by saying our fees were going to DOUBLE I'm sure we wouldn't sit still for that either. The ambiguous "reduction of up to 2/3 of the fee" seems to point in this direction. All registrars are created equal but some registrars are less equal than others. 2) Self Policing. We should be exploring ways to lessen the administrative burden that ICANN has by assuming as many (or all) of the enforcement issues as a group, so that ICANN doesn't have to increase fees to do the same thing that we can probably do for less money. I think that an organization setup and funded by registrars can take care of the issues for 25% of what it would cost for ICANN to do the same. I would be willing to support such an organization. Larry Erlich http://www.DomainRegistry.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Larry Erlich - DomainRegistry.com, Inc. 215-244-6700 - FAX:215-244-6605 - Reply: erlich@DomainRegistry.com -----------------------------------------------------------------