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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat
How many letters has been already sent and how many would you like to see?
Personally, I have already sent emails to ICANN ( also ICANN board members ) and even Department of Commerce just before Wellington.
But I am just a small single webmaster and I guess if the big companies opposed that, only then it would matter.
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You have probably done enough. It would be nice if the largest brands in this industry that have not yet done so would take a simple position for the businesses in this industry and the consumers of their products. It would help.
If you read the GAC communique, you will see this sentence, "The GAC would request a written explanation of the Board decision, particularly with regard to the sponsored community and public interest criteria outlined in the sponsored top level domain selection criteria."
Translation:
GAC = Government Advisory Committee. It is the ICANN constituent committtee for world governments. 109 governments are represented on GAC. When they issue a communique, it is the consensus voice of all those countries.
Sponsored community = adult entertainment industry. They are saying that even though the ICANN Board has said that ICM has shown to their satisfation that they have the support of the industry, GAC is not convinced.
This Is Important: FSC sent a letter of opposition to Dr. Cerf last year. He promised to have it posted to the ICANN website. It was never posted. In New Zealand, I found out why. Because ICANN staff did not want GAC country members to know that there was any industry opposition to dot xxx!
Send a letter to GAC members if you want. Pick your countries. They are all listed on the GAC site:
http://gac.icann.org/web/contact/reps/index.shtml
As it is, we have strategies in play. We are not waiting for letters that may never come. Dot xxx may not go through anyway. We are doing our best.
Tom