New RFC Considers .sex TLD Dangerous

netcentric writes "A post on CircleID has reported about an RFC prepared by Donald E. Eastlake 3rd and Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com's Washington D.C. correspondent, analyzing proposals from various parties to mandate the use of special top level domain names (such as .sex or .xxx) or an IP address bit to flag 'adult' or 'unsafe' material or the like. The analysis explains why these ideas are dangerous and ill considered from legal, philosophical, and technical points of view. Here is the post to this report on CircleID along with some commentaries and link to the entire RFC 3675."

I have a porn RFC

[Anonymous Coward]

A Request For Content, as it were.

Lieberman

[kundor]

At first blush I would consider this a good idea, but seeing that Lieberman endorsed it, I'm forced to knee-jerk the other way.

Adult Bit and Evil bit?

[Nashirak]

Now would this "adult bit" be incorporated into the evil bit [rfc-editor.org]? Or what?

Adult bit? Don't the have that already?

[Anonymous Crowhead]

The Sticky Bit?

hahah

[crayz]

I just told someone at work about this, and he said ".sex? What would that be for...porn sites?"

Lets just say I should hope so

Haven't been with her yet

[ted_nugent]

from the sex-with-sue-almost-as-dangerous dept.

Does she have the clap or what?

Amazon.sex

[superpulpsicle]

I don't know about you, but it certainly gives new meaning to some already existing sites.

tomshardware.sex

slashdot.sex

irs.sex

gateway.sex

Internet's about to get real interesting.

Thread title

[wideBlueSkies]

At first I read it as .sex STD.

Now _that_ would be a dangerous series of websites.

wbs.

Re:hahah

[Metallic Matty]

I just told someone at work about this, and he said ".sex? What would that be for...porn sites?"

I think maybe I'll get a .sex domain so that I can generate more hits based on that assumption.

Cheers.

Re:"If he committed no crime in his home country"

[Anonymous Coward]

"Extrudited"? Is that where they squeeze you through a small hole and then send you back home?

Obligatory Scrubs Quote

[igrp]

I'm fairly sure that if they took all the porn off the internet there'd only be one website left and it'd be called "BringbackthePorn.com".

Re:RTFA

[darth_MALL]

goo....My bad that's what you get for scanning the headlines at work *shame*

Re:Obligatory Scrubs Quote

[Anonymous Coward]

sigh...
why don't you people use hyperlinking? I had to cut and paste that into my address bar.

Slippery slope

[waynemcdougall]

I knew this would happen. You kids with your whiles and fors and do untils....you've brought this all on yourselves.

Yes, yes you were all happy when the GOTO [acm.org] was considered harmful. But it didn't stop there. Oh no. I warned you, I did.

And now see where it's led? Sex considered harmful!

Bring back the GOTO before it is too late!

Yes!

[fluxrad]

I'm all in favor of this kind of TLD.

Preferably something easy to type with one hand.

Re:Don't forget

[frankmu]

hmm...
google.sex

But it can be made safe!

[Anonymous Coward]

Just append .condom to your .sex and you're all set!

Re:Adult Bit and Evil bit?

[aanand]

HOT PACKET ON SERVER ACTION! Click here for FREE ACCESS to streaming video of dirty packets penetrating badly-configured firewalls!!!

ddd?

[good(k)night]

i agree. just hope that DDD [gnu.org] will have homepage at http://www.ddd.xxx/
that will be fun.

Everyone says they hate sex

[Anonymous Coward]

So we should ban it; especially as it creates the very kids we are trying to protect from it, shame on you!

Re:I've never thought this was a good idea...

[El]

Sorta makes you nostalgic for a president that was doing it to his intern instead of doing it to the country, doesn't it?

Re:Amazon.sex

[mahbidness]

I can't imagine the results of this would change anytime soon. [slashdot.sex]

Of course it's a good idea!

[200_success]

Who wants to write for Java or .NET when you could do it in .SEX instead?

Re:RTFA

[dasmegabyte]

He was being serious.

After all, a person who doesn't have time to RTFA isn't going to take the time to watch their kids, either.

I'd be more insightful, but I think my puppy is eating my couch.

Re:ddd?

[mattkime]

Pornography is a very powerful force.

I really wish someone could explain exactly what this powerful force is capable of.

Besides boosting the paper tissue industry.

Re:RTFA

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe, he's not got time to RTFA because he's watching his kids.

Re:RTFA

[Phillup]

I couldn't read what you wrote.

Your message got cut by my censorship filter on the "boob" in your name, Buck-a-boob-ob.

So much for content control...

Re:I've never thought this was a good idea...

[twigles]

Hell at this point I think Monica Lewinsky should be president and Bush should start his own line of perfume. I haven't smelled that crap she is peddling but it can't be worse than what he is happily flinging in our collective face.

Re:Amazon.sex

[argStyopa]

slashdot.sex

Error 404--Not Found
From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.4.5 404 Not Found
The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent, but naturally we hope it's not.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, or if the client is a prude, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address. This may mean the resource really just wants you to STOP CALLING. Get the hint and try another different resource, or resolve your issue using any number of 'offline' methods.

Re:ddd?

[GordoSlasher]

No need to push porn web sites to the middle east. Just give them a superbowl halftime feed.

Sex dangerous?

[GeoGreg]

I started reading the RFC and I was initially alarmed by the title ".sex Considered Dangerous". Then I realized that I am a Slashdot reader, so I am unlikely to encounter any actual sex. Whew! That was close!

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