The ICANN Board of directors had a recent meeting on Monday, 12th February 2007.
I will quote the complete and detailed summary of everything which has been discussed on the meeting in regard to the proposed .xxx domain.
Everyone really interested in this subject should take his time to read it to get an idea how things look right now....
For those who are too lazy - a short summary:
Basically ICANN spent LOTS OF TIME to discuss whether or not .xxx has sponsored community (adult webmasters support).
So unlike some prominent members of this board said, this proves again that ICANN values our opinions a lot since they really spent lots of time dicsussing issues related to the support for .XXX (or lack of it) among adult webmasters.
They have made clear that in recent public comments period substantial input regarding .xxx has been received and that it seems like .xxx has major opposition among the sponsored community.
Many ICANN board members expressed the view that it seems to them like the opposition towards .xxx has increased recently.
They also spoke about the Xbiz conference but unfortunately they had not enough material on what happened at the seminar.
Then the board also VOTED on whether it seems to them if .xxx has sufficient community support or not, and the result of the vote was that the majority of ICANN board members have the feeling that .xxx has not enough community support. They will request more input from ICM regarding this, since they stated that ICM has presented opinions of 24 MAJOR online adult content suppliers who support .xxx ( no company names are mentioned obviously ).
Another minor thing that they discussed was - whether a recent change in the proposed contract (the revised version of Appendix S) should be subject to another period of public comments. It looks like indeed it will be the case so we can expect a new 3 weeks public comments period soon again
Basically the message is quite good to us in the way that it shows that unlike some people think, ICANN clearly is concerned whether or not .xxx has sufficient adult webmasters community support. That proves that those GFY'ers who said "you are stupid if you think your letter to ICANN will make a difference" were wrong
It will be interesting to see how this evolves....