Dear Mctim, I can't agree more with you. Hopefully, one can only expect that the next MOU to be signed between DoC and ICANN reflects more powers to the GAC! rgds Pierre On 5/11/11, McTim <[email protected]> wrote:
Alice,
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Alice Munyua <[email protected]> wrote:
http://domainincite.com/europe-and-us-to-meet-on-xxx-and-new-tlds/
European Commissioner Neelie Kroes is to meet with the US Department of Commerce, a month after she asked it to delay the launch of the .xxx top-level domain.
Is this not highly ironic? Wouldn't she be screaming bloody murder if the US decided, unilaterally, to do this (or something similar) to the rootzone?
The fact is that the ICANN Board could make no other decision on .xxx due to the results of the arbitration on it, factoring in a lack of GAC consensus on the issue. The ICANN Board bent over backwards to please the GAC on this one, to no avail.
At the very least, this serves as a wake up call to the GAC that they aren't in control of ICANN decisions.
-- Cheers,
McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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