.XXX domain rejected Again (1 Viewer)

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ICANN Votes Against Porn Domain Again

The overseer of the Internet's addressing system again rejects the creation of a ".xxx" top-level domain.

Jeremy Kirk and Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service

Friday, March 30, 2007 05:00 PM PDT




The overseer of the Internet's addressing system rejected for the second time the creation of a ".xxx" top-level domain, supported by some as a way to isolate adult content on the Internet.
Nine board members for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted against the proposal on Friday at ICANN's 28th International Public Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. Five voted in favor, while one member abstained from voting, said Andrew Robertson, an ICANN spokesman.
Those rejecting a ".xxx" top-level domain said its creation could set ICANN up as a potential regulator of content on the Internet, which is not in its mandate. ICANN is responsible for the administration of the domain name system (DNS), the index that enables the translation of Web site URLS (uniform resource locators) into numerical IP addresses that can be called up into a browser.
"In the end, the board concluded that the contractual document, the contractual vehicle, wasn't adequate to the task and for a number of other reasons decided to reject the proposal," said ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf during a press conference.
In May 2006, ICANN also rejected creating the domain. Critics of the new domain said it could make adult content easier to find, but others argued that would also make it easier to filter out with software. The domain also raised concerned over free speech and how content on a Web site may be classified.
The consideration of the ".xxx" top-level domain "has occupied a very substantial amount of board time" in the past two years and generated much debate, Cerf acknowledged. But he made a point of dispelling the notion that the board members voting against creating an ".xxx" top-level domain did so as a result of outside pressure from governments or external organizations. "Their decisions were made in accordance with their own consideration," Cerf said.
Friday's vote ends the current proposal from ICM Registry Inc. to create and manage this top-level domain, Cerf said. "This particular round is over. We wouldn't consider another revision of the proposed contract," he said.
The saga began in March 2004, when ICM submitted an application for this domain, a few months after ICANN solicited proposals to create new sponsored top-level domains. Back then, ICANN outlined that the applications needed to "address the needs and interests of a clearly defined community -- the Sponsored TLD Community," which would benefit from the creation of a top-level domain. In voting against ".xxx" on Friday, some members said that ICM's proposal failed to meet this "sponsored community" requirement.
"At no time that I can recall were the board discussions about this top-level domain revolving around the content. It revolved around the process and the evaluation of the proposals and the subsequent contract as to whether these were satisfactory," Cerf said.
ICANN officials also discussed the release of an independent study into the organization's transparency level. The study, done by One World Trust in London, concluded that, overall, ICANN is a very transparent organization but that it can improve certain areas, including explaining better how ICANN uses input from stakeholders when making decisions.

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Good decision I must say. otherwise it will make it easier to censor websites for opressive regimes such as China, Saudi Arabia, iran etc. and employers and institutions by blocking the whole .xxx domain. you can continue your lunch wank at office ha ha.:rofl:

 

[ObjectsInSpace]

Depends upon where you really stand on it. Traditional liberal arguments are anti-censorship and involve the Harm Principle (it's not hurting anyone, so there's no reason to interfere), that censorship prevents freedom of expression, it violates the audience's right to privacy and that pornography allows for 'experiments in living'. There's always the counter-arguments, of course, and neo-liberal ones suggest that pornography causes harm to particular classes of women and classes of society by objectifying them, that it creates stereotypes which restrict freedom of experssion within the wider community, and that an audience's right to privacy is compromised when viewers acquire the material in question.

 

[AsyLum]

Depends upon where you really stand on it. Traditional liberal arguments are anti-censorship and involve the Harm Principle (it's not hurting anyone, so there's no reason to interfere), that censorship prevents freedom of expression, it violates the audience's right to privacy and that pornography allows for 'experiments in living'. There's always the counter-arguments, of course, and neo-liberal ones suggest that pornography causes harm to particular classes of women and classes of society by objectifying them, that it creates stereotypes which restrict freedom of experssion within the wider community, and that an audience's right to privacy is compromised when viewers acquire the material in question.

*yawn* boring stuff really. I mean all that crap fails to account for prostitution being the second oldest profession known to man. The ability to look/have sex has been with society (western I might add) for ages.

Its just society not wanting to attribute a certain 'officiality' in recognising it as an official industry or big enough to warrant such an idea. The thing is, doing so would result in accepting or at least acknowledging a 'deviant' activity.

So yeah.

 

[ObjectsInSpace]

I didn't say it was a good argument. In fact, far from it. Liberalism stresses autonomy, which is really a way of saying 'detach yourself from everything and make every decision as an emotionless person'.

 

[sladehk]

just becoz there is a .xxx domain doesnt meed pron sites will use them

 

[circusmind]

just becoz there is a .xxx domain doesnt meed pron sites will use them

Slippery slope....

optional xxx domain > compulsory > further banning, restrictions on porn.

 

[Gilbert1]

*yawn* boring stuff really. I mean all that crap fails to account for prostitution being the second oldest profession known to man. The ability to look/have sex has been with society (western I might add) for ages.

Im wondering. Whats the oldest? Or do you not know

 

[Serius]

theres heaps, midwifery, hunting, gathering, sewing, firemaking.

 

[DeathB4Life]

that wouldnt make prostitution the second oldest then...

 

[Serius]

sure it would, in order to be a prostitute someone else needs to have something. You also need a society that tolerates it, simple hunter/gatherer societys tend not to because it distablises the matched pairs setup they like to have.

If we are talking about in some sort of ranked order which was the actual second profession it would be something like hunting or gathering, probably toolmaking to make the spear for the hunting lol. Think of it more as the second teir profession, the wave of professions that came about after the first order of business was set up[food, shelter, clothing, reproduction etc]