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. -- 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/