Bob, While I do need to read the RC bylaws and rules, which I now have thanks to Tim (ASCII is always appreciated) and Bruce (URL also appreciated), I was aware of the one vote per controlling interest restriction. That (RC voting rights) wasn't an issue at Rome, in the context of WLS, which is what I _think_ pre-2003 registrars mean when they express some concern about gaming the (unspecified) definition of a "registrar". The issue of defining "legitimacy" is probably not going to go away any time soon, possibly because of the rate of new accreditations. I'll write Dan later today and ask for specifics on accreditations. The registry constituency should have some dim awareness, at least of the rate of growth of drop pool address space and thread access to the CNO registry set. Another letter to write. Submitting applications at a rate of 100/mo must consume a considerable amount of ICANN staff resources. As I watch my own backorder revenue tend towards zero, it concerns me some. I don't think anyone has given much thought to how registry-registrar authentication "works", or how ICANN registry constituency process "works", where the size of the set of gtld-accredited registrars is not on the order of 100, but on the order of 1,000 or 10,000. This was discussed briefly in the PROVREG WG in the context of James Seng's alternative model, and not adopted due to the problem of scaling the EPP authentication mechanism orders of magnitude greater then the then-70-or-so registrars. It just occured to me tht at some point, the rate of accreditation can exceed the rate of OT&E scheduled resources at the registries, resulting in queue growth. We (or at least me) could be concerned that per-thread drop pool revenue is in free-fall, or that the RC's process is about to be swallowed by hundreds of new independent registrars who share a single, or some few "registrar incubators" as their points of origin, or that one of the many design assumptions of the existing set of provisioning protocols is forseeably invalidated, or all three. Thank you for the additional data you've sent me. There is some humor in all of this. Try and avoid going to the beach on typhoon days. MB the kids and I tried this at Cape Hatteras two weeks ago. The surfing was good, but there are some down-sides to torrential rain and high winds. Eric