Also let's not forget about how almost-vice-president Sen. Joseph Lieberman goes around talking about a .xxx top-level domain: http://www.politechbot.com/p-01219.html Previous Politech message: "House panel vote Wed. on bill forcing ICANN to create .kids" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03218.html -Declan ----- Forwarded message from owner-politechat_private ----- In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0203042038590.7731-100000at_private> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:10:34 -0800 To: declanat_private, politechat_private From: Ellen Rony <ellenat_private> Subject: Re: FC: House panel vote Wed. on bill forcing ICANN to create .kids This presents an interesting conundrum for the DOC-ICANN MoU, notwithstanding the pesky issue of who gets to determin what content is "kids-safe"--and how. Consider: * ICANN rejected four .KIDs applications in its new TLD process * New Net launched a .KIDS in its first round of alternative TLDs * A .KIDS TLD already exists in the parallel root server system http://root-dns.org/VueDig/VueDig_tld.php?record=NS&tld=kids&submit=Submit All hail Internet "stability". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ellen Rony // http://www.domainhandbook.com Co-author *=" ____ / http://www.domainsleuth.info The Domain Name Handbook \ ) ellenat_private // \\ On the Internet, no one knows you're a nail polish. Carpe TM. ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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