Mawaki, Paulos and Mwangi,<br><br>Thank you for your Management statements - I for one, I can not agree more with you. Your suggestions are very good to me as the end-end-User. NO to .xxx as a sTLD or in any other form at global level.
<br><br>I am pleased to read that Mawaki mentioned about "Interest" for how long has this .xxxx engaged the global community in this discussion? Mnay hours have been spent on this issue and I think it is time to down tools - I think so.....
<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Yassin<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 30/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mawaki Chango</b> <<a href="mailto:ki_chango@yahoo.com">ki_chango@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Exactly! A new gTLD process is opened because there is someone<br>who, for some reasons or interests, applies for it. Now it's not<br>because this process gets entangled in or with the US domestic<br>politics (or whatever reason, for that matter) that we could
<br>"centrally" suggest that the CCs invest their time and energy to<br>review and assess that demand at country level.<br><br>If any given cc has its second level TLD process open to both<br>private and public operators, and there is one who thinks they
<br>can make profit with .xxx as an sTLD in that country, of course,<br>it's up to them to apply and ultimately launch such TLD.<br>Certainly it's neither for the board, nor for the "global<br>community" to suggest that the ccTLDs in general take over this
<br>work. Some already have so many, more pressing concerns to<br>address to service and serve their national communities, etc.<br><br>Mawaki<br><br>--- Dr Paulos Nyirenda <<a href="mailto:paulos@sdnp.org.mw">paulos@sdnp.org.mw
</a>> wrote:<br><br>><br>> Just to mention that many cc's would be very concerned about a<br>> top-<br>> down approach coming from the Board but would welcome a<br>> proposal from<br>> the community. Regards, Paulos
<br>><br>> On 30 Mar 2007 at 13:04, Michuki Mwangi wrote:<br>><br>> > Dear All,<br>> ><br>> > Its in my opinion that, since the debate will not receive<br>> the full<br>> > support of the global community, why not move the debate to
<br>> the ccTLD<br>> > level. For instance the board proposes that the xxx be a<br>> ccTLD issue not<br>> > a new TLD issue. In this case based on review country by<br>> country, then<br>> > it will be upon each cc's to choose to have a .xxx.cc sTLD
<br>> as opposed to<br>> > the global community's and ICANN board to decide on having a<br>> .xxx TLD.<br>> ><br>> > Those countries that approve of a .xxx.cc sTLD and are an<br>> open registry,
<br>> > they will probably accommodate the adult content<br>> web-masters who are<br>> > seeking a formal name space slot.<br>> ><br>> > This in my opinion will address the issue of the domain at a
<br>> national<br>> > level and take away the debate from the Global arena - since<br>> as varied<br>> > as the world is - the .xxx may not receive the desired<br>> global consensus<br>> > for approval.
<br>> ><br>> > Regards,<br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > Michuki Mwangi<br>> > KENIC<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > AfrICANN mailing list<br>> >
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