[NA-Discuss] [At-Large] ICANN Board Approves Censorship Policy for DomainNames Based on Morality: 2 Board Members Speak Against It]

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Michele and all,

  Well, the subjectiveness of any given string will be the decision
of the GNSO council however it will be constituted after the
GNSO review decision is finalized.  Than the Bod will make
a final decision as to if ICANN agrees to the proposal and the
string associated with same.  At that point, DOC/NTIA with the
input of the GAC will either approve or disapprove.

  The test case will again be the reconsideration of .XXX., as
ICANN is looking to trying to avoid being sued by the original
group that put forth that proposal pending the called upon independent
review, which I believe but do not know, ICANN's legal folks feel
is not going to be favorable towards ICANN or DOC/NTIA and
needs to buy time.  As the .XXX proposal cost an estimated $4m
to prepare and present, and that if ICANN looses a potential suit
from the original group that put forth that proposal and damages are
assessed, those damages could easily exceed 5 to 12 times the actual
cost of the original .XXX proposal and each individual Bod members
and GNSO council members at the time of reversing it's original
decision, could be held financially responsible for all or part of any
potential damage award.

Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:

> >  I also
> >know that there are strings that spell a benign word in one language,
> >and an indecent word in another, and that public morality means very
> >different things in different countries.
>
> Exactly. It's far too subjective.
>
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