[governance] ICANN Net Address Endings to Face Government Objections

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

ICANN has a new CEO and a lot more determination to listen to all
stakeholders since then

Let us keep an open mind for now?

Fahd A. Batayneh [21/11/12 07:50 +0200]:
>I would never disagree, but let us go back into history and specifically to
>the ICANN San Francisco meeting when .xxx was approved against the advise
>of the GAC. While the GAC made a
>statement<http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/03/17/gac-statement-dot-xxx>part
>of which was "THERE IS NO ACTIVE SUPPORT OF THE GAC FOR THE
>INTRODUCTION OF THE DOT XXX TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN", the board never listened. It
>was circulated that the board approved .xxx against the advise of the GAC
>to push the New gTLD program forward.
>
>Statistics state that 4 of the industry's biggest players have a say - in
>total - more than 80% of the New gTLD applications. If the GAC opposes to
>several applications for each, will they agree and give those applications
>easily? After all, they are the same players who invest heavily in setting
>up posh booths at ICANN meetings.
>
>So who will prevail, GAC advise or the big guns?
>
>In general, this is where ICANN has been failing; i.e. working in the best
>public interest. While some saw .xxx as yet another TLD, many rejected it
>for various reasons.
>
>Fahd
>
>On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
><suresh at hserus.net>wrote:
>
>> Sorry?  GAC is part and parcel of the icann process.
>>
>> --srs (iPad)
>>
>> On 21-Nov-2012, at 1:19, "Fahd A. Batayneh" <fahd.batayneh at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20407906
>>
>> Kurt Pritz's resignations last week, and now this is sending the New gTLD
>> program to unknown destinations. I wonder if common sense or lobbying by
>> the big guns will prevail in the end.
>>
>> Fahd
>>
>>

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