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2006-05-11 Thread Jonas Frey
For those who havent already received any of the dozen mails: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-378.html (btw the link in the mail from RIPE is wrong) ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-378.txt Regards, Jonas

MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-10may06.htm -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:46:40 -0400 From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ip@v2.listbox.com Subject: [IP] ICANN rejects .xxx domain Begin forwarded message: As reported in:

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Alain Hebert
Why? If we can coral them in it and legislate to have no porn anywhere else than on .xxx ... should fix the issue for the prudes out there. william(at)elan.net wrote: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-10may06.htm -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 11

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2006-05-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
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RE: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Geo.
Why? If we can coral them in it and legislate to have no porn anywhere else than on .xxx ... should fix the issue for the prudes out there. Because once you separate them out, the government is free to slap a tax on .xxx websites. Geo.

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Alain Hebert
Well, It is always the same thing with this type of thread... Lets try to expand beyond the obvious shall we? Francisco Obispo wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Legislate where?..in the US ? in Canada ? Venezuela ? in Colombia? in Brazil ? . What is

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Robert Bonomi
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 11 12:41:20 2006 Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:40:22 -0400 From: Alain Hebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:46:40 -0400 From: David

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 11 May 2006 13:40:22 EDT, Alain Hebert said: If we can coral them in it and legislate to have no porn anywhere else than on .xxx ... should fix the issue for the prudes out there. The problem is that it's a TLD, not .xxx.us. What standard of porn do you intend to enforce?

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Alain Hebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why? If we can coral them in it and legislate to have no porn anywhere else than on .xxx ... should fix the issue for the prudes out there. And exactly which legislature has the authority to prevent porn sites registering in any other

RE: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Fergie
Also, who is to say what is offensive or dangerous to children? You don't seriously think that only pr0n would be forced into the .xxx TLD, do you? (Aactually, it's pretty funny that anyone in their right mind would expect this happen anyway.) I can also see cases where someone's blog get's

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 11 May 2006 12:57:36 CDT, Robert Bonomi said: Note also: attempting to impose additional restrictions on _existant_, registered domains would likely constitute breach of contract. With big liabilities attached -- look at what the hijacking of 'sex.com' ended up costing the registrar

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
the how-to-label problem has been around since the w3c's pics effort. the jurisdictional issue is aterritorial, as the cctlds cover that, and the authority, nominally, is a 501(c)(3) in marina del rey, and, purely contractual, as is the registry restricted to cooperative entities and the

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 11 May 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006 13:40:22 EDT, Alain Hebert said: If we can coral them in it and legislate to have no porn anywhere else than on .xxx ... should fix the issue for the prudes out there. The problem is that it's a TLD, not .xxx.us. What

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Peter Dambier
So ICANN did come to their senses finally and prevented another collission in balkan namespace :) ; DiG 9.1.3 -t any XXX @TLD2.NEWDOTNET.NET ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34062 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY:

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Derek J. Balling
On May 11, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Peter Dambier wrote: So ICANN did come to their senses finally and prevented another collission in balkan namespace :) Thankyou ICANN for your continued support of alternative roots. If you think *that's* why .XXX died, then I have a small bridge to sell you

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 2:43 PM -0400 05:11:2006, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: the how-to-label problem has been around since the w3c's pics effort. the jurisdictional issue is aterritorial, Negative. 92% of the root is under US jurisdiction with most ccTLD's riding on that infrastructure. I'm in the process of

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Todd Vierling
On 5/11/06, Derek J. Balling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 11, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Peter Dambier wrote: So ICANN did come to their senses finally and prevented another collission in balkan namespace :) If you think *that's* why .XXX died, then I have a small bridge to sell you providing

RE: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread David Schwartz
Why? If we can coral them in it and legislate to have no porn anywhere else than on .xxx ... should fix the issue for the prudes out there. The major problem with this is that many other governments have dangerous ideas that they'd also like to be easily able to identify

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Jim Popovitch
David Schwartz wrote: The major problem with this is that many other governments have dangerous ideas that they'd also like to be easily able to identify and isolate as well. If the United States gets to corral porn, why can't China corral Democracy? Why can't Russia corral advocates

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Fred Baker
On May 11, 2006, at 8:42 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: Why not just plain ole hostnames like nanog, www.nanog, mail.nanog For the same reason DNS was created in the first place. You will recall that we actually HAD a hostname file that we traded around...

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 11:42 PM 5/11/2006, Jim Popovitch wrote: David Schwartz wrote: The major problem with this is that many other governments have dangerous ideas that they'd also like to be easily able to identify and isolate as well. If the United States gets to corral porn, why can't China corral