Fred Baker wrote:
At 02:53 PM 8/11/00 -0700, Greg Skinner wrote:
I have heard on some local (SF bay area) technology news reports that
the Commission on Online Child Protection is looking at dividing the
IPv6 address space into regions that can be classified according to
their "safety" for child access.
I wouldn't worry excessively about that. This is roughly comparable to the
argument that there should be a DNS TLD ".kids" in which folks who have a
non-porn web site can get a domain name. Best.com is now part of Verio,
which is in turn becoming part of NTT. All of these are non-porn companies.
Is that their most important aspect, one they are going to base their
domain name one? nay, nay...
Addresses will be assigned by address registries to service providers, and
in turn to subscribers to service providers. The commission presumably has
some valid comment on what content should be accessible by children, but it
has no idea whether or how that relates to the business structure of the
Internet, and therefore to IPv6 addressing.
Indeed. Or to put it another way, since this "solution" simply doesn't work,
and is in fact meaningless technically, it won't happen.
Brian