It really does strike me as utterly bizarre that GAC is suggesting that 
governments not be liable to pay any fees when they raise an objection to a 
gTLD proposal. There are costs involved in the processing of such objections 
and while efforts need to be made to try and ensure that objection fees are 
not ridiculous (as I believe the fees proposed for arranging a new gTLD 
already are) the claim that governments should be able to object across the 
board and not pay any of the costs of of ICANN in processing such objections 
seems very strange.

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Professor Andrew A Adams                      [log in to unmask]
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/