[139093] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Fouant)
Sat Mar 26 22:08:12 2011
From: "Stefan Fouant" <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net>
To: "'Marshall Eubanks'" <tme@americafree.tv>,
"'George Bonser'" <gbonser@seven.com>
In-Reply-To: <823F94B4-D64E-4E56-9AFC-9E1D14F4DA46@americafree.tv>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:07:08 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:tme@americafree.tv]
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 9:41 PM
>
> But that is an excellent reason why someone would want it.
>
> I was involved in the IETF NEWDOM WG way back in ~1996 and heard all of
> these arguments then. IMHO this was snake oil 15 years ago, and it is
> even
> more snake oil now.
And I'm afraid we'll be seeing a whole heckuva lot more of this snake oil
once ICANN finalizes the Generic TLD process in June:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382233,00.asp
Stefan Fouant
