[NA-Discuss] A comment on the Andruff Bundling Letter

[Eric Brunner-Williams]

Colleagues,

Ron Andruff has written a response to my comment which the list 
software bounced has he's not a subscriber to the na-discuss list.

It appears below.

Eric

> Subject:
> RE: A comment on the Andruff Bundling Letter
> From: "Ron Andruff" <randruff at rnapartners.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:05:00 -0400
> To: "'Eric Brunner-Williams'" <ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net>, <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>
> Eric,
>
> Thank you for your reasoned analysis.  In response I can say that I share
> your apprehension that 'competition policy concerns remain unaddressed', but
> believe that those issues can be addressed ONCE the critical issue of
> bundling is on the table.  Until we can get staff to at least look at this
> deficiency, the cards are stacked against those applicants that wish to
> serve end-users' needs simply because budgets will constrain them.
>
> It should be well-noted that the current AGB allows any entity that has
> multiples of USD 185,000 to apply for multiples of the same string in other
> scripts/languages.  This makes no sense, as you well point out.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> RA
>
> Ronald N. Andruff
> RNA Partners, Inc.
>