The continuing saga at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) about policy for approving new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is entering what may be its final stages this summer. There has been a stream of controversy surrounding the ".xxx" gTLD proposal that was rejected by the ICANN Board of Directors at its March 2007 meeting in Lisbon, and ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO) has continued to work on recommendations for a uniform policy to govern gTLDs, through a special New gTLDs Committee that was set up in a Policy Development Process in December 2005.
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