Dear Alice, To expand McTim's questions, are there any african position on the same issues? On the .XXX, for instance, I recall the Nigerian representative on the GAC had elaborated on an 'African position' at the last ICANN meeting. Pierre.Dandjinou On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:57 AM, McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Alice,
As one of GoK reps on the GAC of ICANN, can you tell us what the GoK position on new gTLds will be?
On .xxx/.gay/.whatever is is that some people find offensive?
Will you be supporting the US position that governments get a veto?
-- Cheers,
McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
http://slatest.slate.com/id/2284157/
Scramble for New Domain Names Begins
For years, most internet addresses have relied on a standard set of Web addresses ending in .com, .net, and .edu. Now, an impending mass expansion of domain names is set to add subject-specific (and potentially controversial) suffixes into the mix. The Washington Post reports that .god, .gay, and .islam are just some of the infinite number of names to be introduced in a move that may make the Internet more intuitive, or just more irritating. Naturally this will throw up the usual set of controversies: Who, for example, gets to control .abortion, .muhammad, and .nazi? The new suffixes will be dolled out by an obscure nonprofit based in California
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Alice Munyua <alice@apc.org> wrote: that
OKed the expansion in 2008 but still hasn't figured out exactly how it will work. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will come to a decision this spring and then begin considering proposals from companies and government. ICANN has encouraged applicants to "Join the Internet land rush!" on its Web site, although the new suffixes will come at a price. It costs $185,000 just to apply, plus an annual $25,000 fee to operate the new domain name. Critics say the "landrush" is simply a moneymaking scheme for the group and corporations that own the domains. The chairman of ICANN says the high fees are necessary because the nonprofit anticipates a lot of suffix-related lawsuits.
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