Good heavens, Milton, yes, given the HouseCANN spooky example, let us 
keep this presumptive renewal thing by all means!

--c.a.

Milton Mueller wrote:
> Karls position is all rhetoric and no substance. 
> 
>>>> Danny Younger <[log in to unmask]> 9/15/2006 5:11:02 PM >>>
>> "Do we really believe that these operators need
>> "presumptive renewal" to give them the incentive to
>> maintain the quality of their TLD businesses so that
>> they can continue to attract and retain customers? 
> 
> Yes, I really do. If you tell me that I don't own my house after 5
> years, at which point some organization called HouseCANN is going to
> roll the dice and decide whether I get to keep it, I am going to be very
> cagey about what I invest in that house. I will NOT put any money into
> it that doesn't reap a short-term return. And I will also spend a hell
> of a lot of time lobbying, and possibly bribing or corrupting, the board
> of HouseCANN. Every day they will get a brochure telling them how great
> a house administrator I am. I will buy off every GNSO constituency I
> can. etc., etc. 
> 
> .
> 

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