Re: [At-Large] Updates to New gTLD Program Implementation and auctioning model.

So who actually made the decision to not allow .xxx? Are we really expected to believe that it was the ICANN board without any US govt / pious interest group's intervention / influence?

If you've ever been to an ICANN meeting, you'll see it's sort of like the Court of the Sun King, with the board members and to a lesser extent ICANN staffers all followed around by swarms of people trying to get a few minutes of face time. The board is lobbied pretty much continuously by all sorts of parties, governmental and otherwise. But since they are big boys and girls, I think it is fair to hold them responsible for the decisions they make. R's, John