I support this statement for the most part. 
Would prefer to delete the following sentences:

>>> Marc Schneiders <[log in to unmask]> 01/13/04 07:37AM >>>
>As things are consumers are trapped
>between ICANN never approving these domains when Verisign started a
>'testbed', ICANN redelegating .org, and PIR that will surely point to
>its contract, saying that it is not their fault but Verisign's. So
>thanks to the contractual structure used by ICANN, consumers have no
>recourse.

The link between Harold's "shell game" metaphor and the
PIR-IDN situation is not at all clear to me. Also, it is unacceptable
to accuse PIR of hypothetical behavior in a policy statement.
("PIR will surely...." but have they?)