[governance] ICANN Net Address Endings to Face Government Objections

[Riaz K Tayob]

perhaps this raises the paradox of participation... which can equally be 
a case for NON-participation in GAC than participation...

If at first you don't succeed... try, and try again seems to be the mantra

perish the thought that ICANN is not as even handed as its fan club 
would like to think...????



On 2012/11/21 09:17 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian 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>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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