On 1/19/2016 5:49 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > I think it will, because I think that in most cases the registrants > and the DEs and/or IANA do engage in reasonable consideration of > delays, but that once we get to a point where the DEs and the > registrant are sufficiently at odds that the registrant feels the DEs > are being unreasonable, by whatever definition, and explanations > aren't being accepted, it's time to get an AD involved and to let the > DEs get back to the other work they're doing. FWIW, we already do that. That doesn't necessarily need an escape clause, especially one that escalates it to a formal "appeal". > We'll never be able to > define "unreasonable", but we will know such a situation when we see > it. Everyone who writes rules always thinks this is the case, but it really isn't - but, regardless, what's the benefit? Applicants already can escalate things to the level of appeal basically any time they want anyway. Joe