Please do not go against your purpose.

["Wayne Bairstow" <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the 
operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving 
broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy 
appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.

This is a snip from your website about your purpose.  As I understand the 
settlement this would be in direct opposition to part of your purpose, 
"promoting competition".  Perpetual Management Rights do the exact opposite 
plus it removes the need to strive to keep costs down and quality up.  I have 
no problem with price increases to cover the base costs or improvements to the 
system, but giving any company any control over prices while limiting or 
preventing competitors, creates a situation where the public will not receive 
fair market prices or quality service.

I can not imagine any legal reason that a non-profit organisation with this 
mandate, would enter into such an agreement.  I am not a lover of the way the 
US deals with the rest of the world, but I would even prefer to see them back 
in control than any single Company.

Wayne Bairstow
www.CRmap.ca