<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On 13 May 2017 at 08:22, Kan Kaili </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><<a href="mailto:kankaili@gmail.com" target="_blank">kankaili@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font size="2" face="宋体">I may not disagree with your arguments. However,
regarding calculating the "costs", that is only next to impossible.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">And that is at the heart of the issue. Just how much would you refund? </div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">The devil is in the details. The GNSO policy was clearly about cost-recovery. and I would argue that the sunk costs specific to that round are reasonable to be recovered by the fees.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">And then we spend more time debating the amount of refund than we spent rolling out the next round...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Also: the POTS analogy doesn't work, since we are not talking costs of physical infrastructure. We can accurately count the person-hours spent in designing the program, especially that which was expended on that round alone.</div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#ffffff">
<div><font size="2" face="宋体">From the above exmples, I believe you can already see
the complexity of calculating the "real cost" of the new gTLD program.
Simply said, I do not believe in any claims of the "real cost", becuase it does
not exist at all.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">I am not sure that I follow the logic that asserting that "the real cost is complex to calculate" leads to conclusion of "the real cost does not exist at all".</div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">- Evan</div><br></div></div>
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