Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] WT 1 Fees-lower up front fee

[Evan Leibovitch <evan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 May 2010 13:21, Elaine Pruis <elaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Evan.  Its a concept that has been kicked around in various circles,
> so why hasn't it been adopted? Do you have any feedback from the
> correspondence? What arguments do we need to debunk to carry this forward?
>
>

Everything I've heard has been informal and undocumented (the above
recommendation was discarded without comment by ICANN staff). From my
conversations I have encountered a pervasive but unacknowledged conventional
wisdom: Any applicant that can't ante $200K up front doesn't isn't stable
enough to join the club.

- Evan