Susan, I really had the feeling that the brazilian votes were cast without consideration of the brazilian government wish. First, the transcripition shows that both of them argued for the inapropriability of ICANN start to monitor content, what it seems to be a feature of the proposed contract (as long as I understand it). And second, being a brazilian myself, I really have doubts about the government's ability to coordinate decisions at this level. ICANN issues are largely unknown by brazilian people, even by brazilian public officers. And although Vanda is a policy people, it seems that the other guy is really a more technical profile. Besides that, the brazilian government in place is not of a social conservative stance, altough concerned with children access to the internet. The only rationale I can see for a concerted vote against the xxx domain emerges from a necessity to please the US government, if brazilians somewhat believe that by this they can pave the way for more ICANN independence _ what I would think is a twisted rationale after all.