Not that this is any sort of news, but I’m putting this blog on hiatus. I’ve got wayy too much stuff on the go to keep a close eye on anyone’s stuff but my own.

ICANN Board Votes Against .XXX Sponsored Top Level Domain Agreement

via ICANN (thanks for the link Tim)

I can't wait to hear "why" on this one.

Somedays I really wonder about this organization.

In some respects, this is more disappointing than the Verisign settlement. That was mostly a selfish, power-hungry decision. This just seems plain chicken.

Tim Berners-Lee: "Anyone can build a new application on the Web, without asking me, or Vint Cerf, or their ISP, or their cable company, or their operating system provider, or their government, or their hardware vendor." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

– via Scripting News: 5/7/2006.

Susan Crawford: “This is a very big step that won't get as much attention as the Net Neutrality fight….There are costs to innovation -- having to ask permission before launching a new service.  There are costs to privacy -- having to design everything to have a back door for law enforcement.”

It seems as if the policy makers are catching up to the technology makers – except the eyeglasses they’re wearing have a much different tint.