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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat
last time when we fighted .xxx in May 2006, it were about 10 individuals who raised awarness here and kept all the threads about it on top of GFY which resulted in a few hundred emails from GFY sent to ICANN, which was already some kind of achievement
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ya, but i think it was the 60,000+ emails from religious/convervative groups along with the US government opposition that spoke the loudest over 600+ emails messages from webmasters.
Lawley has stated that over 1,000 adult webmasters have sent support for .XXX
Let's take that for face value, that 1,000 emails were forwarded to ICANN.. what does that say to our 600 in opposition? It says there is community support.
In looking at the AVN article and the part i pulled out of in my earlier post, that what ICANN seems to have accepted is that the adult online industry is not the sponsorship community... it is broader to include non-adult parties, therefore a majority consensus from adult is not needed to prove constituency.
This is quite bizarre because it means anyone who thinks there should be .XXX is the sponsorship community.
It also appears that the changes that ICM has provided to ICANN appeases concerns of ICANN/GAC members, that they are not looking at the issue of adult community, but rather if ICM's plans for the registries satisfies other issues that are more technical, and less abstract.
I do fear that ICM has done all it is required to do for the TLD application that ICANN will approve it.
At that point, that;s when the can of worms gets opened up... it will certainly be interesting to see the landscape after the .XXX approval.
Fight the stay tuned!