Stef and all, Yeah, Richard Sexton and I posted some stuff about this yesterday. Very interesting though! As I posted yesterday, where did the ISOC get this authority? I knew that the ISOC was having some financing problems but this is a bit out of line price wise and ethics wise! Einar Stefferud wrote: > This is pretty funny. .IL is run by ISOC Israel. > > http://www.isoc.org.il/domains/acp-fees.html > > Fee schedule for ISOC-IL > Advisory Committee Panel (ACP) > > December 1998 > > The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been running > mediation and arbitration panels for a number of years. WIPO has also > set up a mediation panel for Internet Domain Names. Their fee > schedules can be found at: > > http://www.arbiter.wipo.int/online_dispute/mediation-rules/complete.html > http://www.arbiter.wipo.int/online_dispute/arbitration-rules/miscellaneous.html > > ISOC-IL does not wish to create such a complex and highly-priced fee > structure as WIPO has established. As an initial attempt, ISOC-IL has > set the fee for requesting a decision of the Advisory Committee (see > Section E of the new rules) at $500. If during the course of the year > we feel that this amount is too high or too low, or needs to be set > according to the amount of hours the ACP works on each petition, we > will issue a fee schedule modification. -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208 __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________