I agree with the first two. Justification I see for "high" cost is straightforward though : it goes to some kind of restraint in the expansion movement. What is this 200k relative to total set up cap ex requirements, anybody has an approximate ratio? Nicolas On 2/22/2012 8:06 PM, Andrew A. Adams wrote: > Robin, > > My personal top three issues at present: > > 1. Ensuring that the multi-stakeholder model is not destroyed by top-level > late interventions overturning an often carefully crafted and negotiated > balance between the stakeholders. Allowing late interventions to have > significant impact really undermines this model, whether it's by the GAC or > anyone else. Governments manage long term involvement in all sorts of arena > (WTO, WIPO, OECD) all the time. If the Internet is so important then they > should be properly engaging in the multi-stakeholder process rather than > trying to do an end run. > > 2. Privacy for individuals. I remain unconvinced by the arguments that > individuals who wish to register domain names should lose their right to > privacy around their real world contact information. We need a deeper look at > the necessity for technical contact details to be provided and for the > registrar to be cntactable and have as part of their standard contract a way > of dealing with any significant technical problems (domain being used for > spam, fraud etc). > > 3. The high costs associated with the current round of GTLDs which militate > against both developing country players and against non-commercial players in > registering new GTLDs. Can the board please justify these costs beyond "what > the market will bear"? >