[LINK] .xxx xxx'd

[David Goldstein]

Hi Alastair,

PICS still exists in a child protection sense. First there was RSAC that amalgamated and merged into ICRA (Internet Content Rating Association) and now ICRA is part of the Family Online Safety Institute. See http://fosi.org/icra/.

Cheers
David

----- Original Message ----
From: "arsptr at internode.on.net" <Alastair.Rankine at smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net>
To: Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>; link at anu.edu.au
Sent: Monday, 2 April, 2007 11:53:36 AM
Subject: Re: [LINK] .xxx xxx'd

> [On 30 March, the ICANN Board rejected the further revised
> proposal  for a .xxx domain.

Reading through RFC 3675, which sets out some pretty
compelling reasons not to adopt a .xxx TLD, I am reminded of
the PICS technology for content classification. This seems
to have been virtually abandoned of late. Having a working
PICS system for classification of content would be a useful
counter to future efforts to establish a TLD for the same
purpose.

Some further thoughts here:
http://girtby.net/articles/2007/4/1/i-want-a-pony-domain

[BTW Hi Linkers, yes I'm back after an n-year absence. Would
you believe I re-subscribed a couple of years ago from my
work account but never received any traffic, and then forgot
about it. I guess that Link was blackholed somewhere along
the line. Anyway here I am under my home email, looks good
so far.]
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