I think one thing that is important to realize is that the Internet must be kept secular. Secular means that it welcomes all forms of belief or non-belief equally. Reality is optional. God is optional. I'm in the process of writing a brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a religious rights case where "what is secular" is one of the issues. One of the conclusions I came to is that my religion, the Church of Reality, is not secular. Many people, both religious and non-religious, think secular means Atheism. But Atheist are not secular. Secular means an indifference to a point of view. Thus "secular values" are limited to the lowest common denominator of values that are included in all of sociery. And when you combine that with the fact that ICANN is not a law enforcement agency, even if it is illegal it not our job to do anything about it. Our mission is to make the Internet work, not to be the thought police. Fast Flux, for example, is possibly interesting to us because it tampers with the working of the Internet. Fraud, while interesting to me personally (I'm in the spam filtering business), is probably beyond the scope of our mission. Protecting people from dangerous idea is definitely outside of our mission. Filtering porn is not our job. As a organization that serves the international community we have to stay narrowly focused on what we are supposed to be doing and not let ourselves suffer mission creep and get into area where we should not go. Because we serve all religions and non-religions we can not accept a religious position. Because we serve all nations we can not be in law enforcement because different nations have different laws. Even on issues that are universally immoral, or universally illegal, it's not our job. It's not what we do. If we have a mission it is to actively keep ICANN religiously and nationally neutral. To fight against attempts of religions or nations to use ICANN as a tool to restrict what people do online. If we lose our secularity we lose our legitimacy. However, if we are going to pick a religion to be the standard of morality enforcer, I nominate my religion. The Church of Reality. :) Marc Perkel First One Church of Reality "Reality changed my life - it can change your's too!"