Thursday, 5 May 2011

Department of Commerce on .XXX domain for porn sites

Courtesy: ISOC
Here is the letter from Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Department of Commerce, US Government to Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission on the .XXX and further Internet Governance issues.

The key points:
  • Obama Administration does not support decision of ICANN to approve Registry contact with ICM Registry on .XXX domain delegation
  • ICANN ignored the "clear advice" from governments including the US Gov
  • USG respects the multi-stakeholder process
  • ICANN Board took its action without the full support of the community
  • DoC is dedicated to improve the responsiveness of ICANN to all stakeholders


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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous11 May 2011 at 01:02

    well, if GAC is _one_ of stakeholders and every other stakeholder says yes - there must be a good reason. Should there be "vetoing" stakeholders? JUst one of them, or all of them, or some of them?

    To me it seems that there is a continuing development of governance model in ICANN - and, let's face it, they have almost no examples to follow: only UN and EU may serve as such, but neither is perfect.

    Making ICANN board to only make decisions by "consensus or consensuses" may work for high-profile decisions (like DNSSEC in root) but creating just a single new TLD, is, to me, a small thing.

    Now, there must be of course an appeal process... a Catch-22, eh?

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  2. Dr. Andrzej Bartosiewicz11 May 2011 at 14:04

    Good example of the multi-stakeholders model is (often criticized) ITU-T/TSB model, where Member States work together with Sector Members (businesses) in the area of standardization in telecommunication. I'm not going to asses the ITU overall efficiency and their involvement in Internet, but at least such model works for traditional telecommunication standardization.

    Back to ICANN: there should be consensus and none of the stakeholders should be granted the "veto", especially if the subject is actually... outside the scope of GAC (yes, I would expect GAC to be focused on ccTLDs, not gTLDs/newTLDs). GAC and/or Governments should facilitate for example new IDN TLDs, instead of spending time on porn business!!! (isn't it funny anyway?)

    IMHO ICANN did (finally) a good job with .XXX and it should be a lesson for multi-stakeholder approach, without "special treatment" for some ;) stakeholders.

    Anyway, probably next time European Commission will act faster than this time (sending letter AFTER .XXX approval).

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