Re: I don't understand why this is a problem Adam, (1) This Sub Group is populated only by individuals with a clear conflict of interest. Neil Blair has been promoting Overstock.com's efforts to obtain O.com; Marilyn Cade has Overstock.com as a client, and Mike Roddenbaugh seeks to promote Yahoo's interest in obstaining Y.com. This has led to a blatant disregard for expert technical commentary that opposes single-letter introductions such as that put forth by John Klensin -- see http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg04473.html (2) If energy is devoted to a debate over which 20+ companies will acquire rights to a single letter .com name, it will divert the focus away from higher priority issues such as the release of IDN TLDs. (3) The recent overstock.com proposal -- see http://www.icann.org/correspondence/warren-to-board-28nov06.pdf -- proposes an auction only between "parties with established trademark or use rights in the ‘name’,". The Sub Group will next meet to come up with allocation methodologies which will certainly ratify the overstock proposal. (4) Introducing WG results into the tail end of an already long PDP process is the equivalent of hiding last-minute and perhaps unpopular measures into a 1000-page appropriations bill. My advise continues to be that we watch developments closely lest a surprise emerges. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com