[kictanet] Europe and US to meet on .xxx and new TLDs

[Walubengo J]

Alice, McTim et al.

Plse bring us upto speed on the what is the beef here.  My recollection is that the .xxx top level domain (for Pornographic content) was previously vetoed by the Bush (Jnr) government(?) but somewhat the Obama administration seems to have favored it and by extension ICANN - has finally and procedurally filled the intention to implement it (?).

So what's with the EU request to delay the implementation? Is it that the EU is now backtracking on the .xxx domain? And I wonder what is the general "African" position (if there ever was one) on this whole issue?

walu.



--- On Wed, 5/11/11, Dandjinou Pierre <pdandjinou at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Dandjinou Pierre <pdandjinou at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Europe and US to meet on .xxx and new TLDs
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 11:06 PM

Dear Mctim,

I can't agree more with you. Hopefully, one can only expect that the
next MOU to be signed between DoC and ICANN reflects more powers to
the GAC!
rgds
Pierre

On 5/11/11, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alice,
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Alice Munyua <alice at apc.org> wrote:
>> http://domainincite.com/europe-and-us-to-meet-on-xxx-and-new-tlds/
>>
>> European Commissioner Neelie Kroes is to meet with the US Department of
>> Commerce, a month after she asked it to delay the launch of the .xxx
>> top-level domain.
>
> Is this not highly ironic? Wouldn't she be screaming bloody murder if
> the US decided, unilaterally, to do this (or something similar) to the
> rootzone?
>
> The fact is that the ICANN Board could make no other decision on .xxx
> due to the results of the arbitration on it, factoring in a lack of
> GAC consensus on the issue. The ICANN Board bent over backwards to
> please the GAC on this one, to no avail.
>
> At the very least, this serves as a wake up call to the GAC that they
> aren't in control of ICANN decisions.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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