FC: Ellen Rony on ICANN's new problem: How to respond to .kids?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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

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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0203042038590.7731-100000 () well com>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:10:34 -0800
To: declan () well com, politech () politechbot com
From: Ellen Rony <ellen () rony com>
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".


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Ellen Rony                    //          http://www.domainhandbook.com
Co-author                  *="  ____ /     http://www.domainsleuth.info
The Domain Name Handbook      \     )                    ellen () rony com
                              //   \\
   On the Internet, no one knows you're a nail polish.  Carpe TM.


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