suggestion to limit .xxx and .kid type domains

[myspot@xxxxxxxxx]

Allowing moral evaluation of content to guide or mandate website 
nomenclature, even potentially, is a dangerous precedent with 
negative social and financial ramifications.  While nomenclature such 
as .XXX or .KID might be valid for inclusion into ICANN registry as 
voluntary commercial alternatives for webmasters who desire such a 
label, there appears to be no reason to create them, and some very 
good reasons not to do so.  Or at the very least usage should be 
limited via ICANN contract agreements to ensure their voluntary and 
nondiscriminatory nature.

So far criteria for obtaining a domain suffix are rather general or 
morally neutral.  This makes obtaining one easy to understand and not 
offensive to a potential website owner.  Moral based criteria for 
attaining--- much less being forced to adopt--- a domain name will 
end such clarity and promote further argument and tension.  After all 
there is no end of what societies may want to segregate in order to 
promote or ostracize.

For example what would be valid for .XXX or .KID?  There is no 
straightforward answer. Religious texts, including the Bible, contain 
sexual or violent passages some may feel are wholly unsuited for 
their children.  And yet less overtly sexual information or content, 
perhaps gay themes, may be thought invalid for children within other 
households.  This is a debate without a true end as any decision will 
be temporally and culturally arbitrary.

It would seem wise for ICANN to set a strong precedent of rejecting 
the use of domain names for cultural/moral promotion or ostracism. 
If domain names with such potential are created,  ICANN should 
structure language within their agreement contract to ensure no owner 
such as ICM can operate a service which may benefit from legislative 
coercion of webmasters or internet users regarding the suffix they 
control.

Certainly such operators stand to benefit financially from the 
legislative "segregation" which these types of suffixes allow and 
appear to be designed to do.  Such activity stands against the spirit 
of language ICANN already includes in their agreement against domain 
name cyber-squatting, so why it would be thought permissable given 
the dubious purpose of moral censorship or promotion remains unclear.

Mr. Holmes