[ncdnhc-discuss] U.S. Senate subcommittee holds .kids.us hearing

[Alan Davidson]

At 5:40 PM -0400 9/12/02, Chris Chiu wrote:
>A subcommittee of the United States Senate has held a hearing on a bill to
>create a .kids subdivision within .us. The  measure has already been
>approved by the U.S. House of Representatives.

Apologies for continuing a discussion of only partial relevance to 
this constituency, but some may find of interest the letter CDT wrote 
concerning the problems with a "kids" domain like .kids.us. The 
letter is available at:
	http://www.cdt.org/dns/
  and	http://www.cdt.org/dns/020912dotkids.shtml

CDT had previously raised concerns about the US Congress mandating a 
.kids gTLD, a proposal that was made last year but has since been 
dropped in favor of a .us based approach. (And we believe the 
.kids.us approach, while still problematic, is much better than a 
US-mandated gTLD!) See:
	http://www.cdt.org/dns/011031dotkids.shtml

Regards,

Alan


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