Technical, Business, and Legal Dimensions of Protecting Children from Pornography on the Internet Proceedings of a Workshop (2002) / Chapter Skim
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13 Problems with a Dot-XXX Domain
13 Problems with a Dot-XXX Domain
Pages 85-89
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In one country you can have a magazine consisting entirely of nude pictures of 17-year-olds, but this is obviously a felonious and criminal act in another country, where nude models have to be 18. Yet another country might not permit any noticeable amount of the female body under any circumstances in a magazine or publication.
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In addition, the Internet is not technically structured for things to be done in this way. The Internet has a hierarchically distributed control structure, so that one entity controls dot-coin, for example, and other entities control the subzones below dot-coin.
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It is very simple, for example, to take an arbitrary mailing list, one that is entirely innocent and devoted to some light topic, and create an alternative address that you can send mail to, an address with terrible things about "xxx" in its name. You can have this bad sounding address automatically forward messages to the real, innocent mailing list and change the envelope information things not normally seen around a message and the headers.
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Essentially, the longest match determines how the packet is sent. I am simplifying this a bit, but at the top level of the Internet, routing tables currently have on the order of 40,000 or 50,000 entries, and this determines where things go at the top level, and they trickle down from there until they get to a particular local machine.
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You could have literally thousands or millions of different PICS servers that painted the world in different ways, and they would enable you to ask questions as to whether certain parts of the network are approved or not by the vendor of that particular PICS rating service, which could be some particular church, culture, or country. I am not saying that this necessarily would work wonderfully, but it does seem to have at least some technical practicality.
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