ICANN Board Meeting from Cartagena where .xxx will be decided

[Redrob]

Link:

http://cartagena39.icann.org/node/15521

The meeting starts about 10:30am EDT.

Agenda for Board Meeting ? Cartagena
10 December 2010

Consent Agenda:

Approval of Minutes from 28 October 2010 ICANN Special Board Meeting
Approval of Minutes from 5 November 2010 ICANN Board Meeting
Thank You?s
From the Board Governance Committee (all tentative depending on committee meeting):
Approval of Bylaw Amendments on Board Member Term Transitions
Response to Reconsideration Requests 10-2 and 10-3
From the Structural Improvements Committee (all tentative depending on committee meeting):
Approval of Posting of New Constituency Charter
Approval of NomCom Review Implementation
Approval of RSSAC Review High-Level Implementation Plan
From the Board Finance Committee (tentative depending on committee meeting):
ICANN Investment Policy
Approval of Location of the Asia June 2011 Meeting (tentative depending on Finance & PPC committee meetings)
Acknowledgment of Receipt of FY 11 Update to the ICANN Plan for Enhancing Internet Security, Stability & Resiliency
Approval of MoU with the New Partnership for Africa?s Development Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD/NPCA)
Status Report on AOC Reviews
UDRP Status Update

Main Agenda:

From the Structural Improvements Committee (all tentative depending on committee meeting):
SSAC Bylaw Changes
Strategic Plan
New gTLDs
Guidebook Consideration
Morality & Public Order
Geographic Names
SSAC Report on Invalid Top Level Domain Queries at the Root Level of the Domain Name System
ICM Registry Sponsored Top-Level Domains ? .XXX
Items Arising from the Cartagena Meeting
Any Other Business

Agenda for Organizational Meeting ? 10 December 2010 ? Cartagena

Election of Board Chairman
Election of Board Vice-Chairman
Appointment of Membership of Board Committees
Confirmation of Officers of ICANN
Other Business

From listening to the meetings leading up to this meeting, XXX has a good chance of passing based on it passing all the procedural hurdles. Misgivings about representations made seem to be taking a non-disqualifying status. I'm sure the meeting will be either hot and heavy or cool and quick. Either way, it will be interesting.

No Fear, Just Knowledge.

[JFK]

I fear it will be the end, it will pass

[ThumbLord]

I think they will pass indeed.
Hope for another outcome though.

[Kolargol]

Well, ICANN already know ICM is the only one who will benefit from .xxx, adult webmasters as well as (I guess) anti-porn organizations are against it, yet they still want to allow this.

[DWB]

Does ICANN know that a lot of the male population in Cartagena fucks baby donkeys? And do they know it's one of the top spots for child prostitution?

On second thought, maybe that's why they are going.

While the old city is very charming and romantic, it doesn't seem like the type of place people would gather to have such a meeting.

[Nikki_Licks]

Lets pray it gets voted down. Nothing worse than this .XXX crap.................

[u-Bob]

Fuck .xxx and anyone planing on using a .xxx domain.

[spazlabz]

yeah... unfortunately I believe this TLD is gonna happen and it blows big time. I just hope that the creation of this BS does not inspire the US Congress to legislate it's use. The harm to our industry could be HUGE if they do

[Screwed Up]

Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy

Does ICANN know that a lot of the male population in Cartagena fucks baby donkeys? And do they know it's one of the top spots for child prostitution?

On second thought, maybe that's why they are going.

While the old city is very charming and romantic, it doesn't seem like the type of place people would gather to have such a meeting.

Yeah, I was really surprised. Of all places Carthagena? I guess they want to mix work with pleasure.

[DWB]

Originally Posted by spazlabz

unfortunately I believe this TLD is gonna happen

It will take a miracle from Zeus himself for .XXX to fail. There is too much money behind it and too many people quietly supporting this hoping to make money on it. We've been fucked from the inside out from day one.

You'll see real fast with new .xxx sites popping up, who supported it and who didn't. I know most will RUN to send traffic, buys traffic, and do business with them, so as you do, just know you deserve the fucking that will come from this sooner or later.

Unstoppable piracy, California possibly about to go all condom, and now this.... we did it to ourselves. Congrats to the winners.

[Redrob]

The meeting has just started.

[Redrob]

It appears to me that the .XXX decision delayed until GAC advice considered!!

[Quentin]

Originally Posted by spazlabz

yeah... unfortunately I believe this TLD is gonna happen and it blows big time. I just hope that the creation of this BS does not inspire the US Congress to legislate it's use. The harm to our industry could be HUGE if they do

Rest assured, if ICANN approves the TLD, someone in Congress will introduce such a bill, and if that bill ever makes it out of committee, it will very likely be voted into law. For that matter, such bills have been proposed before, without a .XXX TLD in existence, so it stands to reason that they'd give it another go once the TLD is actually available for use.

Of course, passing a law like that is merely step one, and it is less than certain that Congress can craft a law along those lines that will survive court scrutiny. Stuart Lawley has averred to challenge any such law in court (for what a promise from him is worth), and there's a very strong First Amendment argument to be made that forcing adult sites to move to .XXX would be unconstitutional.

Assuming it passes, I think one of the most interesting questions about the new TLD and its governing body (IFFOR) is this: will they permit the operation of user-generated/uploaded content sites? If so, how can they assure people that such .XXX sites will be "safer" or more "responsible" than their .com equivalents? A user can upload any sort of material he/she wants to a site that allows uploads, obviously, including file-based exploits, CP, copyrighted material, defamatory and/or libelous statements, etc. The safety and responsibility promises have hitherto been a mainstay of Lawley's argument about why .XXX will be beneficial to both the industry and to the world at large, so this is not an insubstantial question.

One possibility is that Lawley knows that keeping those promises is unfeasible from a practical standpoint, and he is knowingly selling snake oil in order to get .XXX approved. The other possibility is that he is an ignorant buffoon where the finer points of digital data distribution are concerned, and he really believes that IFFOR can effectively patrol and control content on the new TLD.

IMO, neither of these possibilities does much to inspire confidence in ICM, or confidence in the prospect of ICM operating a porn-specific TLD.

[davecummings]

Thank goodness that FSC is there working on our behalf!

[DWB]

Originally Posted by Redrob

It appears to me that the .XXX decision delayed until GAC advice considered!!

Translated: They just found out about La Dulce Vida club and are headed out to bang some of Cartagene's hottest hookers.

[DWB]

Originally Posted by davecummings

Thank goodness that FSC is there working on our behalf!

You know... it is Colombia.

If Lawrey is down there, I'm sure someone knows some hard hitting Colombians in Cartagena who will work on our behalf, if you know what I mean. ;-)

[LAJ]

How much money has Lawley pumped into this so far? Something like 10 million dollars of his own money?

That should tell you something about how much he might stand to make if this passes.