Thanks, Bret. not easy. Someone else pointed me as well to these materials: 1. Please see "An Economic Analysis of Domain Name Policy" by Karl M. Manheim and Lawrence B. Solum, starting around page 103. The full document may be downloaded from this page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=410640 2. Solum debates Auerbach at http://lsolum.blogspot.com/archives/2003_04_01_lsolum_archive.html#200102145 3. The Cross-Constituency Position (BC-IPC-ISPCP) in opposition to auctions at http://www.bizconst.org/positions/WPnewgTLDsfinal.doc