RE: [wg-c] New gTLDs via US Government legislation???

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

some fool comes up with this idea every month.  because a fool in washington
did has no implications other than there are fools in washington.  but we
already knew that.

randy


> For what it is worth, I don't see the U.S. Congress passing such a law this
> session.  When such a topic came up before in discussions in hearings,
> members weren't suggesting that a law was needed; they did ask whether it
> would be useful to have an .xxx gTLD. Civil libertarians and First Amendment
> folks and some others don't think it will solve the concern that it was
> intended to address. I don't believe it has "legs", but that doesn't mean
> that you won't see more news media suggesting that someone, or other, is
> interested in such an idea.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 6:00 PM
> To: Mark C. Langston
> Cc: wg-c@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-c] New gTLDs via US Government legislation???
> 
> 
> > Newsbytes is reporting that Christopher Cox (R-CA) is planning to
> > push legislation that would create a gTLD for "adult material".
> > 
> > Now, either ICANN is federally controlled, or it's not.
> 
> your hypothesis being that, if icann were federally controlled, it could
> keep us congresscritters from wanting to do stupid things?
> 
> randy