.XXX delay and simple math
26 October 2005 | Published in ICANN, Internet | 3 Comments
I just re-read M. Gallagher’s letter to the ICANN chairman regarding concerns about the proposed .XXX domain. Have you noticed that these 6000 complaints represent only 0.002% of the current US population ? and 0.00009 % of the world population ? In which democratic context could such a small group block a process ?
This would be equivalent to having 9 Luxemburgers (total pop. 450,000) writing to complain. Would ICANN have taken that seriously and blocked a process to please 9 people ?
The Internet is for everyone and no netizens should get a better treatement than others.
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30 October 2005 at 7:27 (#)
Thanks for the numbers, Patrick.
I wish I could be as surprised by them as you. Unfortunately, I’ve been paying close, internal attention to the dialogue for some time, and know too well how insanely out of balance they are.
Whatever the outcome of DOTXXX, whatever becomes of the porn industry, I know (well, I hope) we’ll look back at these events and wonder how we could have been so distracted at such an important moment for the Web.
Jack Mardack
30 October 2005 at 11:49 (#)
[...] MORE OF MY COMMENT The Next Net did a quick analysis of some of the statistics associated with “support” for .XXX, and noticed how much influence has been exerted by so few people. [...]
12 May 2006 at 12:07 (#)
[...] It still comes as a surprise to some. Frankly, this was the prognosis I made to Stuart Lawley two years ago, for the very reasons mentioned by the European Commission. I mentioned in a previous blog entry that 6000 complaints from US citizens would have more weight on the conservative US administration than any other consideration. Had the ICANN board approved .XXX, I bet that it would have been blocked by the DoC at a later stage, ie in the IANA-DoC-Verisign root zone update process. [...]