Originally Posted by Quentin

Actually it might well matter, because sponsoring community support is arguably part of the criteria for making sure that ICM's meeting of the eligibility requirements is "current."

In other words, just because ICM provided what was (eventually, retroactively) deemed sufficient evidence of sponsoring community support for their 2005 proposal, it does not necessarily follow that they have what the ICANN board would consider sufficient support now, 5 years later.

I'm fairly certain there will be another round of public comment on this issue; the real questions are what will ICANN seek comment on, and will it include requiring ICM to demonstrate current sponsoring community support, and/or supply a less laughable definition of "sponsoring community" than the one they've most recently endorsed - which essentially boiled down to "the sponsoring community = people who want to register .XXX domains."