Michele and all, Well, the subjectiveness of any given string will be the decision of the GNSO council however it will be constituted after the GNSO review decision is finalized. Than the Bod will make a final decision as to if ICANN agrees to the proposal and the string associated with same. At that point, DOC/NTIA with the input of the GAC will either approve or disapprove. The test case will again be the reconsideration of .XXX., as ICANN is looking to trying to avoid being sued by the original group that put forth that proposal pending the called upon independent review, which I believe but do not know, ICANN's legal folks feel is not going to be favorable towards ICANN or DOC/NTIA and needs to buy time. As the .XXX proposal cost an estimated $4m to prepare and present, and that if ICANN looses a potential suit from the original group that put forth that proposal and damages are assessed, those damages could easily exceed 5 to 12 times the actual cost of the original .XXX proposal and each individual Bod members and GNSO council members at the time of reversing it's original decision, could be held financially responsible for all or part of any potential damage award. Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:

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I also know that there are strings that spell a benign word in one language, and an indecent word in another, and that public morality means very different things in different countries.

Exactly. It's far too subjective.

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