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Originally Posted by jayeff
The main reason not to attempt to debate with Mr Lawley is that I suspect you would be wasting your time. He is in the fortunate position of not actually having to debate with anyone: he presents his application and for reasons which probably have little to do with the application itself, ICANN have so far rejected it. Then Lawley addresses the stated concerns and tries again.
In just the same way that Lawley is unlikely to have the slightest interest in protecting minors, but uses that emotive subject as a lever, ICANN don't want to say they gave in to pressure from so-and-so, therefore they rationalize their objections.
In other words, the public debate is a farce, window dressing. It is extremely difficult to avoid the impression that Lawley has someone on the inside at ICANN, someone with enough clout to prevent this issue being put to rest, but not enough to push it through. With the money at stake, I guess Lawley will just keep coming back until/if that changes.
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good point that this debate is a farce, but we don't know it for sure
but from my understanding the current round of new .tld application ends soon (later this year)
a few extensions like .jobs, .travel or .mobi were already added (on a side-note, ever seen a .jobs site? ) and now they concentrate mostly on .xxx
There's also a .post application which is less advanced than .xxx from what it seems... and they gave .post a deadline till June 30 2007. Probably .xxx has a similar deadline, so till then they have to either finally accept it or oficially reject it. And then the current round gets closed and in hm.... 6-18 months (thats my guessing though) ICANN will announce that they start accepting the applications again. So probably again about 10 companies will submit applications to ICANN hoping their useless proposals will get accepted.. and ICM may do it then again.... or they will finally lose interest if ICANN rejects them this time for good.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-04jan07.htm