For ICANN, ".xxx" doesn't mark the spot
March 30, 2007
ICANN, (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), has vetoed a proposal that would allow for porn sites (and presumably others) to adapt Web addresses that would end in the suffix ".xxx."
Final score: 9-5 against.
According to ICANN Member Vint ("father of the Internet") Cerf, the poposal was vetoed because it might imply that the body was passing rules on Internet content. That would be a violation of its mandate to supervise the technical way the Internet operates in order to ensure fair and open participation.
ICANN's holding fast.
"To assume an ongoing management and oversight role regarding Internet content is inconsistent with ICANN's technical mandate," the ICANN board said in a statement.
"I believe that we have to guard very carefully against ICANN ever becoming a regulator in that sense, and it's for that reason, and that reason alone, that I would cast my vote against the proposed agreement," said ICANN board member Steve Goldstein.
Marketwatch reports that when asked at a press event if the board would ever revisit the issue, Cerf said "over my dead body."
Unnamed representatives of the adult entertainment industry said today they were preparing a legal challenge to this decision.
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