Eric, My statement does not preclude anyone from joining at this time, but they must pay the old $750 fee. If I recall correctly, the new proposed fee was slightly less (but it might have been the same). If less, I assumed that some would want to wait to join. But there is absolutely nothing that prevents a registrar from paying $750 now and joining, as per Tim Ruiz's email. Rob. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine [mailto:brunner@nic-naa.net] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 7:35 AM To: Rob Hall Cc: tbarrett; 'Robert F. Connelly'; 'Registrars Constituency'; brunner@nic-naa.net Subject: Re: [registrars] Nominations for Chair. Rob, As you'll recall we weren't able formally to "agree" on a position concerning the WLS, so I borrowed Bhavin's laptop and submitted a proposal that in the due course of time was balloted. I haven't noticed anything resembling this in the subject under discussion. Is this something I missed while on holiday, or was this decision simply one of the members present at KL. I have some concerns about not allowing accredited registrars to join the RC until some unrelated predicate condition is satisfied, and what if the budget takes longer than a nominal amount of time to approve? Eric