Re: [soac-mapo] Exchange of letters between GAC and ICANN re: morality issues

[Evan Leibovitch <evan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 November 2010 14:57, Antony Van Couvering <avc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> For those not yet aware, there has been an exchange of letters between GAC
> and ICANN concerning the subject matter of this working group.
>

Thanks for sending this.



>
> The GAC letter of Nov 22 (
> http://icann.org/en/correspondence/dryden-to-dengate-thrush-22nov10-en.pdf)
> suggests that there be "prior review" of applications, in order to give
> applicants an "early warning" that their TLDs might raise sensitivities.  It
> does not say who should conduct these reviews, what the standards of review
> are, whether there would be any appeal, whether the determination of the
> reviewers was final, etc. etc.   The GAC letter suggests that this is
> important in view of the principle of universal resolvability, noting that
> to date "there do not appear to be controversial top level domains that have
> resulted in significant or sustained blocking by countries."  The letter
> does not explain why this is different than blocking of second-level domains
> by countries, which is a widespread practice.
>

Isn't the ccTLD for Israel widely blocked in the mideast?

And what about .XXX?

- Evan