[governance] ICANN Net Address Endings to Face Government Objections

[Fahd A. Batayneh]

Well, this is the good part though, and I hope it is as promising as it
sounds.

Fahd

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> 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<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<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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