<br clear="all">FYI, apologies in advance for crossposting.<br><br>Best,<br><br>Brenden<br>
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Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:49 AM<br>Subject: [IGP-CORE] [IGP Announce] Internet Governance Project Headlines<br>To: <a href="mailto:IGP@listserv.syr.edu" target="_blank">IGP@listserv.syr.edu</a><br><br><br>
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<div align="left"><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 102);" size="3"><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"></span></font><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" size="3">January 26, 2009</font><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span><br>
<br><a href="#11f136ebb6a5b022_11f136bc3c571b1b_0">Revenge of the .xxx domain?</a>
<br><a href="#11f136ebb6a5b022_11f136bc3c571b1b_1">SOTN: Private sector borrows IGP's ideas; govts apparently balk at splitting ICANN</a>
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<p>In what may prove to be the biggest sleeper Internet governance issue of the year, ICM Registry has publicly posted its filings for the Independent Review Panel that will decide whether ICANN acted improperly in rejecting its application for a .xxx domain. ICM Registry participated in ICANN's 2004 round of "sponsored" top level domain additions. Its application to run a top level domain reserved for adult content provoked a global controversy when the Bush Administration, responding to a mass mobilization from its base of religious conservative groups, pressured ICANN to reverse its June 1, 2005 vote that the .xxx domain met its eligibility criteria. ICANN's Board eventually killed the application in March of 2007.
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This is the first usage of ICANN's Independent Review Process. The ruling in this case will have major implications for ICANN's accountability and the continuing controversy over the role of the U.S. government in ICANN's affairs.</p>
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<p>With civil society unfortunately not invited to participate in Wednesday's <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/175425/11399494/http://www.netcaucus.org/conference/2009/agenda.shtml" target="_blank">State of the Net</a> panel on the "Future of ICANN and Internet Governance," it was heartening to see that IGP's work infiltrated the discussion anyway.
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The Washington-insider panel centered on what should be done when the USG-ICANN Joint Project Agreement (JPA) expires in September 2009. Unfortunately, no audio or transcript of the event was made available. Based on <a>other accounts</a> the usual positions were laid out for the audience. NetChoice's industry advocate Steve DelBianco pleaded for trademark interests and religiously played the "takeover by other governments" fear card, Brazilian government official Everton Lucero expressed the mantra of other powerful governments that the U.S. has "inappropriate control of ICANN and the DNS," and ICANN's Paul Levins maintained that ICANN was already an "independent organization" and sought to dispel fears of ICANN gone wild in a post-JPA world.
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Only when DelBianco suggested that ICANN's responsibilities could be split in two - with ICANN continuing to regulate gTLDs and some other organization overseeing ccTLDs - did things become revealing.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/IGPBlogCombined/%7E4/514456366" height="1" width="1"><br>
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