Dear Mr. Lynn,
I very much appreciate this particular disagreement.
However, the purpose of ICANN is to promote competition, not to penalize Afilias.
If ICANN were to follow my suggestion of awarding .Web to IOD, .Shop to Name-space,
and .Info to Afilias; there would immediately be two very popular gTLDs competing
with what I believe would be the two most popular names of Afilias; .Com and .Info.
I do not mind Afilias making money. I don't mind Afilias
being awarded new avenues in which to make money. My only objection would be
to permit Afilias to maintain or increase its percentage of the overall pie.
A smaller piece of a much larger pie will benefit Afilias
and everyone else as well. This is how it should be.
Best wishes, Eliahu