{"id":41803,"date":"2002-03-08T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2002-03-08T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/?p=41803"},"modified":"2012-09-23T21:14:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T04:14:48","slug":"ellen-rony-on-icann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2002\/03\/ellen-rony-on-icann\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Rony on ICANN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting observations:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This presents an interesting conundrum for the DOC-ICANN MoU, notwithstanding the pesky issue of who gets to determin what content is &#8220;kids-safe&#8221;&#8211;and how.<\/p>\n<p>Consider:<br \/>\n*  ICANN rejected four .KIDs applications in its new TLD process<br \/>\n*  New Net launched a .KIDS in its first round of alternative TLDs<br \/>\n*  A .KIDS TLD already exists in the parallel root server system <a href=\"http:\/\/root-dns.org\/VueDig\/VueDig_tld.php?record=NS&#038;tld=kids&#038;submit=Submit\">http:\/\/root-dns.org\/VueDig\/VueDig_tld.php?record=NS&#038;tld=kids&#038;submit=Submit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All hail &#8220;Internet stability&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting observations: This presents an interesting conundrum for the DOC-ICANN MoU, notwithstanding the pesky issue of who gets to determin what content is &#8220;kids-safe&#8221;&#8211;and how. 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