[governance] Fwd: [IGP Announce] Internet Governance Project Headlines

[Brenden Kuerbis]

FYI, apologies in advance for crossposting.

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Brenden


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From: Internet Governance Project <info at internetgovernance.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Subject: [IGP-CORE] [IGP Announce] Internet Governance Project Headlines
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January 26, 2009

Revenge of the .xxx domain? <#11f136ebb6a5b022_11f136bc3c571b1b_0>
SOTN: Private sector borrows IGP's ideas; govts apparently balk at splitting
ICANN <#11f136ebb6a5b022_11f136bc3c571b1b_1>
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Revenge of the .xxx domain?
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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.

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.

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 SOTN: Private sector borrows IGP's ideas; govts apparently balk at
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With civil society unfortunately not invited to participate in
Wednesday's State
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on the "Future of ICANN and Internet Governance," it was heartening to
see that IGP's work infiltrated the discussion anyway.

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 other accounts 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.

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.

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