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?)