Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] Proposed Addendum to Proposals

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

1. What is an "audit"? Is it the same thing in Beijing, Brussels and
Marina del Rey?

2. Is the "Registry Operator or its Affiliate [which] may serve as an
ICANN-Accredited Registrar in any top-level domain other than the TLD
for which Registry Operator or its Affiliate serves as the Registry
Operator” Verisign, or is that a non-issue to the few registrars
proposing that they be allowed to form registrar-registry combines?

It may be an issue to registrars with no desire to form
registrar-registry combines but anticipate competing form the new gTLD
registrar market ... absent the re-entry into the registrar market of
the previous unified monopoly incumbent, and entity with $5.1bn in
capitalization.

It is real simple to add market cap language, so why has that been
overlooked?

3. The schedule/details TBD/penalties/costs/independent/rotating
machinery sounds nice, but how does it work? Is it conducted in
English only or French or Chinese from time to time?

Eric