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New RFC Considers .sex TLD Dangerous
netcentric writes "A post on CircleID has reported about an RFC prepared by Donald E. Eastlake 3rd and Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com's Washington D.C. correspondent, analyzing proposals from various parties to mandate the use of special top level domain names (such as .sex or .xxx) or an IP address bit to flag 'adult' or 'unsafe' material or the like. The analysis explains why these ideas are dangerous and ill considered from legal, philosophical, and technical points of view. Here is the post to this report on CircleID along with some commentaries and link to the entire RFC 3675."
If you bothered to read the article, or even the summary, you'd see that the RFC prepared by Mr. Eastlake is against a .sex top-level domain.
y'know, if you're using Mozilla, you can just select an addy with the mouse and right-click on it to go there....
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
Just like any other for-profit web presence, they want as many page views as possible.
Let me guess... You just woke up from a coma, and you think it's still 1998? An on-line business does NOT make money from page views, they make money from customers paying for products and services. Why would you want little kids going to your porn site? Kids don't have credit cards, and MOST of them wouldn't ask their parents to order porn for them.
Actually, from a business standpoint, there are good arguments both for and against self-regulation. Hard to tell how this is gonna play out; most likely, nothing will get decided, and everything will just continue as before.