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Originally Posted by GatorB
Actually ICANN will be totally independant by 2011, with the US gradually giving it more freedom starting in 2008. Of course then the Euros will get their way and get that .XXX thing passed. So careful what you wish for.
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I'm not wishing for much Gator - whoever is in control will eventually screw it up - that's as sure as death and taxes.
Sure the US govt has said they wish to release ICANN as a private entity - but that is not what other countries want. They are already planning to have their own country TLD's managed by an international org with all countries represented within this organization - not by ICANN or a private entity.
There are moves to make this happen - after the breaking of an agreement which was due to pass ICANN over on 30th Sept this year and doubt they care about timescales quoted by the US govt.
You may remember.. last year there were threats to pull cable from data centres unless this was not resolved quickly. It was stalled on 11th hour and could possibly be on the table again.
PS.. Na.. Europe has expressed zero interest in having .xxx TLD's, but there is the usual tendency to want to control everything much the same as US does at the moment. The bigger a govt/org gets - the more they come up with total crap to screw stuff up - the EU will be no different.