[ALAC] [LAC-ALS] .xxx

[Carlton A Samuels]

I agree with Wendy.

 

Make no mistake about this, the opposition to the .xxx TLD is very much
related to the larger effort to regulate content. ICANN should not show
favour in any way to this campaign but stick to its core competence.
Furthermore, my reflexive libertarian streak respecting what I read or view
has determined that I am unalterably opposed to any attempt by ICANN to
regulate content.  For as a consenting adult, it is simply none of anybody’s
business what I deem useful content for my own use, much less a ‘global
multistakeholder’ organization!

 

I am yet willing to concede that we have a duty of care to protect the young
and probably, the weak-minded.  But not even these should be considered as
ICANN’s responsibility.

 

Carlton

 

[Spanish Version]

 

Concuerdo con Wendy. 

 

No haga error acerca de esto, la oposición al .xxx TLD es tanto relacionado
al esfuerzo más grande regular el contenido. ICANN no debe mostrar el favor
en ninguna manera a esta campaña pero al palo a su competencia del centro.
Además, mi rayo libertario reflexiva que respeta lo que leí o veo ha
determinado que soy opuesto inalterablemente a cualquier tentativa por ICANN
para regular el contenido. ¡Para como una persona de edad para consentir, es
simplemente ninguno de cualquiera el negocio lo que creo útil contenido para
mi propio uso, mucho menos una organización "global de multistakeholder"! 

 

Soy mas dispuesto a conceder que tenemos un deber del cuidado para proteger
a los jóvenes y probablemente, el débil tiene inconveniente en. Pero ni eso
debe ser considerado como responsabilidad de ICANN.

Carlton

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: lac-als-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
[mailto:lac-als-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of At Large
Advisory Committee
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:40 AM
To: Vittorio Bertola
Cc: 'Interim ALAC'
Subject: Re: [LAC-ALS] [ALAC] .xxx

 

ICANN should not be in the business of evaluating strings, 

period.  It should publish technical criteria and minimally evaluate 

whether a registry fulfills those.

 

Some trademark holders will argue against new TLDs, but then they'd 

also argue against learning new languages, lest they have to "police" 

their marks in those too.

 

--Wendy

 

At 04:16 AM 1/30/2007, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

>Just pushing the issue again - if we want to be heard on this, we need

>to come up with a statement in a not too long timeframe, definitely

>before Lisbon.

> 

>Specifically:

> 

>Bret Fausett ha scritto:

> > On the money printing machine argument, this is an argument in favor of
no

> > new generic TLDs at all. I don't see it as unique to .XXX.

> 

>No, the point is that if you had a TLD that is useful to someone (as any

>other TLD that was created, basically), then defensive registrations

>would be a price that we collectively have to pay to get more names

>available out there. But if the TLD is not wanted by its own community

>(and it seems unlikely that adult webmasters are actually going to move

>into it, just to be filtered out more easily), then what you're left

>with is a TLD that more or less only contains defensive registrations

>and pay-per-click sites, and that is a nonsense to me.

> 

>OTOH, I think that defensive registrations are a silly method to protect

>one's brand, as it doesn't scale, and moreover it helps create scarcity

>of good names - so it's time that ICANN discourages it and ensures that

>there are effective methods to act ex post, rather than being concerned

>about how to help it.

>--

>vb.                   Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu   <--------

 

--

Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.org

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html

http://www.chillingeffects.org/  

 

 

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