New gTLD Agreements

["James Butler" <jbutler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re: .BIZ, .INFO, .ORG Agreement Re-Negotiations

1) What benefit to the Internet community is afforded by the inclusion of 
variable/tiered per-domain pricing options?

2) What safeguards are applied to the variable/tiered per-domain pricing 
options to keep .BIZ, .INFO and .ORG from going the way of .TV, i.e. $1,000,000 
registration fees for "valuable" domain names?

Would someone from ICANN please make definitive statements regarding these 
issues before voting to approve or disapprove the new agreements? There has 
been substantial discussion of these issues around the world without the 
benefit of a definitive statement from ICANN, increasing the perception that 
ICANN is developing and adopting agreements "from the middle up" instead of 
"from the bottom up", that may lead to increasing dissatisfaction with and 
resistance to ICANN's stewardship of the DNS.

Thank you.

James Butler
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Internet Society - Los Angeles Chapter

PS: Originally sent to new-gtlds-questions@xxxxxxxxx but that 'forum' is 
non-responsive.