Damn Bob, that had me laughing. On the other list (union of micro-revolutionary-registrars) I've been attempting to point out that no registrar actually notices when ICANN doesn't answer the phone, and therefore that a wicked expensive BCP is either padding, or some other ICANN constituency actually cares more than registrars do, if the phone rings for a while. Incidently, that "cares more" is actually conjecture on my part. No one seems to know why there is a BCP on budget. Now, back to the classical "who pays" rather than "for what" ping-pong between the fixed and the transactional camps. Eric