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Skriven 2005-12-01 16:45:26 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende: Bushies kill .xxx porn domain?
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>

Rather silly  as it's not like killing the .xxx will eliminate porn from the
net. It might make it easier to filter though

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/01/icann_kills_xxx/

The proposed .xxx porn domain has been kicked into the long grass just days
before it was due to meet final approval.

ICANN chairman Vint Cerf stunned an open meeting of the governmental advistory
committee (GAC) in Vancouver late on Tuesday when he announced that the whole
issue had been pulled from the Board meeting agenda - where it had been the
first topic of discussion.

 The reason given (this time) was that the GAC needed time to review a
350-page ICANN report on the domain's feasibility before it could provide its
approval (or disapproval).
That's a red herring though. The report was completed on 31 August, and is
mostly complimentary about the proposed domain. Not only that but all the
issues surrounding the domain are already well known to everyone involved, and
up until Cerf's sudden announcement, had been effectively given the green
light.

ICANN has come under pressure to release the report and so provide adequate
excuse for delaying .xxx's approval yet again. The people behind .xxx, ICM
Registry, opposed its release, complaining that no other new domains had had
their ICANN report released before they had been granted final approval and
that they were being unfairly treated.

However, if rumours are to be believed, ICANN took a top-level decision to
release the report and so provide a delay excuse, after EU commissioner Viviane
Reding called the head of ICANN Paul Twomey direct and threatened to withdraw
all the EU's representatives unless the issue was pulled. Twomey this morning
denied he had had any communication with Reding over the issue.

If would certainly be an unusual decision on Reding's part, especially since
the EU has been mostly supportive of .xxx. It is only Brazil and the US
administration that remain opposed to the domain.

More likely is that the US government intervened but is desperate to avoid
being seen to do so because of the ongoing Internet governance conflict, where
the US government retains unilateral control of the Internet but claims never
to use apply it.

The Bush administration has been very effectively lobbied by the Christian
right, and the US is desperate to make it look as though other governments are
equally concerned about .xxx. The conspriacy theory is that by delaying .xxx,
the EU puts a spotlight on the US' attempts to sway the course of the Internet.


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