Jeff, > http://www.cnnfn.com/digitaljam/newsbytes/130488.html > > Now this is the way to do self regulation without over regulation and > overly restrictive policies... Golly, do you mean that "In forming ICRA, our goal is to provide parents and teachers around the world with a *standardized, strong and flexible system* for protecting children from Internet content they find inappropriate," said Jens Waltermann of the Bertelsmann Foundation and chairman of the board of ICRA. "It is not for us or for governments to decide what is inappropriate. Individual parents should make that choice. We will ensure that the system helps parents in a variety of different cultures." accomplishes something that having chartered domains could not have done? Why is an embedded tag a better regulatory scheme than an explicit one? Is the 'enforcement' aspect any easier? Is any other aspect of privacy/ trade infringement modified or ameliorated or even addressed? Having raised all that dust, I readily grant that a *multi-dimensional* grid of various "standardized, strong and flexible" systems beats a linear name hands down. As soon as the privacy and trademark crowd(s) get with this approach, the entire DNS confrontation is moot (just as someone predicted a couple months ago it would be), the NSI bubble bursts, and the hot stocks will be in Internet Rating databases. (I hope its clear by now just whose IP such a database will be.) So read em and weep. "Publicly accessible" becomes "outlaw," and the "law" will be vigilantes/ enforcers with the power to take down your site the moment they find a discouraging (lets not say 'restrictive') word or image or sound or digital gesture. "Hey, we dont decide what is inappropriate. We just help parents. Its what the market wants." kerry Btw, are RSAC/ ICRA tags in XML? kerry
