This is precisely why some of us distrust the USG's involvement in any
naming scheme. They
intend to decide "acceptable" content and applications, and to require
full true-name IDs (DNA too?) on
operators.
Oppressive regimes always license the printing presses and xerox
machines.
Will they also control any permutation of .kids, and any
typewriter-hamming-distance perturbation,
just in case users misspell things?
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Other additions in the bill call for collection of detailed contact data
from operators of dot-kids sites
and the right to pull the plug on the domain or transfer
oversight to another company if it isn't working
out as planned.
Right now, the legislation calls for Washington, D.C.-based NeuStar to
oversee .kids.us, a
second-level domain within .us. The legislation's supporters
originally hoped to create a separate .kids
domain that would function as a top-level domain similar to .com
or .org. However, the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN (news - web
sites)), which oversees
administration of such domains, put the kibosh on the proposal.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=73&ncid=73&e=2&u=/zd/20020412/tc_zd/5106116
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Some legislators need their "plugs pulled", with extreme prejudice.
