Re: [ga] Fw: ICANN's Karl Auerbach responds to Joe Sims over .kids domain

["Jim Fleming" <JimFleming@prodigy.net>]

Karl,

Since everything ICANN is doing is a "proof-of-concept"
on the "toy" IPv4 Internet, I am not sure it matters in the long-term.
If you look around any of the other major name space expansion
movements, I think you will see that people have moved well-beyond
the level of the ICANN experiments.

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12574.html
RFC-2001-07-01-000 IPv8 Expansion of Proof of Concept TLD Development

Jim Fleming
http://www.unir.com
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http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12213.html
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@CaveBear.com>
To: "Rick H Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>
Cc: "Bruce James" <bmjames@swbell.net>; "GA" <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] Fw: ICANN's Karl Auerbach responds to Joe Sims over .kids
domain


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> > > Content labelling by use of domain name names is a very naive, and
> > > bludgeoning, way to make use Internet technology as a tool of
government.
>
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Rick H Wesson wrote:
>
> > aparently .info, biz, and all the rest of the new gltds are labels for
> > content; and since certain new tlds have restrictions it seems .kids
> > content censoring is in-line with the rest of icann's previous work.
>
> Right.  And I find it very troubling that ICANN has undertaken what, to my
> mind, amounts to a vague, and probably unenforceable, promise to the
> internet community that .info and the ICANN approved version of .biz will
> be used in particular ways.
>
> Is "using" a domain name to be measured by web services, by e-mail
> services, by chat or messaging services, ... ?  And what is ICANN going to
> do if somebody deep down in the ICANN approved .biz should be hosting an
> instant-message-based "escort" business?
>
> That kind of thing simply is not part of "technical" coordination of the
> DNS - that's the kind of thing that is better suited for a legislature to
> handle.
>
> As a general matter, it's my feeling that ICANN ought to be absolutely
> blind to any purported semantics of a domain name.  There are plenty of
> laws on the books already to handle defamation, trademark infringement,
> misappropriation of identity, misrepresentation, etc.  We don't need to
> overlay that system with a lex-ICANNia.
>
> --karl--
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