All, as you might have noticed, .xxx is coming up again, and is under discussion in the community and in the Board. I see more or less two positions - one says that .xxx would just be a "money printing machine" for ICM (the registry), and most registrations would just be defensive ones, to prevent your name from being associated to adult content, so it's better not to create it; the other one says that ICANN should just create TLDs and let the market determine whether they are successful or not, so let's create it. In addition, we know that many governments will be very upset if .xxx is created, partly for moral reasons, partly for the risk that their countries and places are associated with porn; on the other hand, I could imagine that ICM would sue ICANN if it doesn't get the domain. As a committee, do we have an opinion? I would recommend that we release a brief statement on the matter in the next couple of weeks, so that I can bring it to the Board. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------