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Date: 2001-02-28

Domains: gegen virtuelle Rotlichtviertel


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Donald Eastlake 3rd und Declan McCullagh haben für die
IETF [Internet Engineering Task Force] basierend auf Sektion
10 von RFC 2026 [Request for Comments] einen Entwurf
verfasst. Damit soll als Quasi-Standard fest geschrieben
werden, was TCP/IP, Domains und sogenannte "Adult Sites"
betrifft, dass streng abgegrenzte, virtuelle Rotlichtviertel im
Netz ein Blödsinn sind.

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[Donald Eastlake and I co-authored this IETF Internet Draft in
advance of the March 18 meeting in Minneapolis. This is an
inital draft, and comments are very welcome. You can also
find the draft at: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-
eastlake-xxx-00.txt --Declan]

***********


INTERNET-DRAFT Donald Eastlake 3rd Motorola Declan
McCullagh Wired News Expires: August 2001 February 2001



.xxx Considered Dangerous ---- ---------- --------- <draft-eastlake-
xxx-00.txt>



Status of This Document

Distribution of this draft is unlimited. Comments should be
sent to the authors.

This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance
with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC 2026. Internet-Drafts
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Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights
Reserved.



Abstract

Periodically there are proposals to require the use of a
special top level name or an IP address bit to flag "adult" or
"safe" material or the like. This document explains why this
is an ill considered idea.

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Table of Contents

Status of This Document....................................1 Copyright
Notice...........................................1
Abstract...................................................1

Table of Contents..........................................2

1. Background..............................................3 2. Legal and
Philisophical Problems........................4 4. Technical
Difficulties..................................6 4.1 Domain Name
System (DNS) and Other Names...............7 4.1.1 Linguistic
Problems..................................7 4.1.2 The DNS Hierarchy
and Use of TLDs....................8 4.1.2 You Can't Control Who
Points At You..................8 4.1.3 Particular Protocol
Considerations...................9 4.1.3.1 Electronic Mail
(SMTP).............................9 4.1.3.2 Web Access
(HTTP).................................10 4.1.3.3 News
(NNTP).......................................10 4.1.3.4 Internet Relay
Chat...............................10 4.2 IP
Addressing.........................................10 4.2.1 Hierarchical
Routing................................11 4.2.2 IP Version 4
Addresses..............................12 4.2.3 IP Version 6
Addresses..............................12 4.3 PICS
Labels...........................................13 5.
Conclusions............................................13

References................................................14 Authors
Addresses.........................................15

Full Copyright Statement..................................16
Expiration and File Name..................................16

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1. Background

The concept of a .xxx, .sex, or similar top-level domain is
periodically suggested by politicians and commentators.
Other proposals have included a domain reserved exclusively
for material viewed as appropriate for minors, or using IP
address bits or ranges to segregate content.

In an October 1998 report accompanying the Child Online
Protection Act, the House Commerce committee said "there
are no technical barriers to creating an adult domain, and it
would be very easy to block all websites within an adult
domain." The report also said that the committee was wary of
regulating the computer industry and that any decision by the
U.S. government "will have international consequences."
[HOUSEREPORT]

British Telecom has backed adult top-level domains, saying
in a 1998 letter to the U .S. Department of Commerce that it
"strongly supported" that plan. The reason: "Sexually explicit
services could then be legally required to operate with
domain names in this gTLD [that] would make it much
simpler and easier to control access to such sites..." [BT]
One of ICANN's progenitors, the GTLD-MOU committee,
suggested a "red-light -zone" top-level domain in a
September 1997 request for comment. [GTLD-MOU]

Some adult industry executives have endorsed the concept.
In 1998, Seth Warshavsky, president of the Internet
Entertainment Group, told the U.S. Senate Commerce
committee that he would like to see a .adult domain. "We're
suggesting the creation of a new top-level domain called
'.adult' where all sexually explicit material on the Net would
reside," Warshavsky said in an interview at the time.
[WARSHAVSKY] More recently, other entrepreneurs in the
industry have said that they do not necessarily object to the
creation of an adult domain as long as they may continue to
use .com.

Conservative groups in the U.S. say they are not eager for
such a domain, and prefer criminal laws directed at
publishers and distributors of sexually-explicit material. The
National Law Center for Children and Families in Fairfax,
Virginia, said in February 2001 that it did not favor any such
proposal. For different reasons, the American Civil Liberties
Union and civil liberties groups also oppose it.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the U.S. Democratic Party's vice
presidential nominee, endorsed the idea at a June 2000
meeting of the federal Commission on Child Online
Protection. Lieberman said in a prepared statement that "we
would ask the arbiters of the Internet to simply abide by the
same standard as the proprietor of an X-rated movie theater
or the owner of a convenience store who sells sexually-
explicit magazines." [LIEBERMAN]


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In the 1998 law creating this commission, the U.S. Congress
required the members to investigate "the establishment of a
domain name for posting of any material that is harmful to
minors." The commission devoted a section of its October
2000 report to that topic. It concluded that both a .xxx and a
.kids domain are technically possible, but would require
action by ICANN. The report said that an adult domain might
be only "moderately effective" and raises privacy and free
speech concerns. [COPAREPORT]

The commission also explored the creation of a so-called red
zone or green zone for content by means of allocation of a
new set of IP addresses under IPv6. Any material not in one
of those two zones would be viewed as in a grey zone and
not necessarily appropriate or inappropriate for minors.
Comments from commissioners were largely negative:
"Effectiveness would require substantial effort to attach
content to specific I P numbers. This approach could
potentially reduce flexibility and impede optimal network
performance. It would not be effective at blocking access to
chat, newsgroups, or instant messaging."

In October 2000, ICANN rejected a .xxx domain during its
initial round of approving additional top-level domains. The
reasons are not entirely clear, but former ICANN Chairwoman
Esther Dyson said that the adult industry did not entirely
agree that such a domain would be appropriate. One .xxx
hopeful, ICM Registry of Ontario, Canada, in December 2000
asked ICANN to reconsider its decision. [ICM-REGISTRY]



2. Legal and Philisophical Problems

When it comes to sexually-explicit material, every person,
court, and government has a different view of what's
acceptable and what is not. Attitudes change over time, and
what is viewed as appropriate in one town may spark
protests in the next. When faced with the slippery nature of
what depictions of sexual activity should be illegal or not, one
U.S. Supreme Court justice blithely defined obscenity as: "I
know it when I see it."

In the U.S., obscenity is defined as explicit sexual material
that, among other things, violates "contemporary community
standards" -- in other words, even at the national level, there
is no agreed-upon rule governing what is illegal and what is
not. Making matters more knotty is that there are over 200
United Nations country codes, and in most of them political
subdivisions can impose their own restrictions. Even for legal
nude modeling, age restrictions differ. They're commonly 18
years of age, but only 17 years of age in Sweden. A
photographer in Oslo conducting what's viewed as a legal and
proper photo shoot there likely would be branded a felon and
child pornographer in the U.S.


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Saudi Arabia, Iran, and China are not likely to have the same
liberal views as, say, the Netherlands. Saudi Arabia, like
some other nations, filters its Internet connection and has
created a government committee to protect its society from
web sites that officials view as immoral. Their views on what
should be included in a .xxx domain would hardly be identical
to those in more liberal democracies.

Those wildly different opinions on sexual material make it
improbable a global consensus can ever be reached on what
is appropriate or inappropriate for a .xxx or .adult top-level
domain. Moreover, the existence of such a domain would
create an irresistible temptation on the part of conservative
legislators to require controversial publishers to move to that
domain.

Some conservative politicians already have complained that
ICANN did not approve .xxx in its October 2000 meeting.
During a February 2001 hearing in the U.S. House of
Representatives, legislators warned that they "want to
explore ICANN's rationale for not approving two particular top
level domain names -- .kids and .xxx -- as a means to
protect kids from the awful smut which is so widespread on
the Internet."

It seems plausible that only a few adult publishers, and not
those who have invested resources in building a brand around
a .com site, would voluntarily abandon their current domain
name. Instead, they'd likely add a propel legislators in the
U.S. and other countries to require them to publish
exclusively from an adult domain, a move that would invite
ongoing political interference with Internet governance and
raise concerns about forced speech and self-labeling.

In fact, the ultimate arbiter of generic top-level domain names
-- at least currently -- is not ICANN, but the U.S. government.
The U.S. Congress' General Accounting Office in July 2000
reported that the Commerce Department continues to be
responsible for domain names allowed by the authoritative
root. [GAO] The GAO's auditors concluded it was unclear
whether the Commerce Department has the "requisite
authority" under current law to transfer that responsibility to
ICANN.

The American Civil Liberties Union -- and other members of
the international Global Internet Liberty Campaign -- caution
that publishers speaking frankly about birth control, AIDS
prevention, and gay and lesbian sex could be coerced into
moving to an adult domain. Once there, they would be
stigmatized and easily blocked by schools, libraries,
companies, and other groups using filtering software.
Publishers of such information who do not view themselves
as pornographers and retain their existing addresses could
be targeted for prosecution.

The existence of an adult top-level domain would likely open
the door


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for related efforts, either policy or legislative. There are many
different axes through which offensive material can be
defined: Sex, violence, hate, heresy, subversion, blasphemy,
illegal drugs, profanity, political correctness, glorification of
crime, incitement to break the law, and so on. Such
suggestions invite the ongoing lobbying of ICANN, the U.S.
government, or other policy-making bodies by special-interest
groups that are not concerned with the technical feasibility or
practicality of their advice.

An adult top-level domain could have negative legal
repercussions by endangering free expression. U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has suggested
that the presence of "adult zones" on the Internet would
make a future Communications Decency Act (CDA) more
likely to be viewed as constitutional. In her partial dissent to
the Supreme Court's rejection of the CDA in 1997 [CDA],
O'Connor said that "the prospects for the eventual zoning of
the Internet appear promising." (The Supreme Court ruled the
CDA violated free speech rights by making it a crime to
distribute "indecent" or "patently offensive" material online.)

Privacy could be harmed by such a proposal. It would
become easier for repressive governments and other
institutions to track visits to sites in a domain labeled as
adult and record personally-identifiable information about the
visitor. Repressive governments would instantly have more
power to monitor naive users and prosecute them for their
activities. It's also not clear how effective a top-level domain
would be when controlling access to chat, email, newsgroups
and instant messaging.



4. Technical Difficulties

Even ignoring the philosophical and legal difficulties outlined
above, there are substantial technical difficulties in
attempting to impose content classification by domain
names or IP addresses. Mandatory content labeling is
usually advanced with the idea of using a top level domain
name, discussed in section 4.1 below, but we also discuss
the more fundamental possibility of using IP address bits or
ranges in section 4.2 below.

In section 4.3 difficulties with a few particular higher level
protocols are discussed. In some cases, these protocols
use different name spaces.

We also discuss PICS labels [PICS] as an alternative
technology in section 4.4.

Only a limited technical background is assumed so some
basic information is included below and in some cases
descriptions are


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simplified.



4.1 Domain Name System (DNS) and Other Names

The most prominent user visible part of Internet naming and
addressing is the domain name system [RFC 1034, 1035].
Domain Names are dotted sequences of labels such as
aol.com, world.std.com, www.rosslynchapel.org.uk, or
ftp.gnu.lcs.mit.edu [RFC 1035, 1591, 2606]. They form an
important part of most World Wide Web addresses or URLs
[RFC 2396], commonly appearing right after "//".

Actually, domain names just name nodes in a global
distributed hierarchically delegated database. A wide variety
of information can be stored at these nodes including IP
addresses of machines on the network (see section 4.2
below), such things as mail delivery information, and many
other types of information. Thus, the data stored at
foo.example.com could be the numeric information for
sending data to a particular machine, which would be used if
you tried to browse <http://foo.example.com>, the name of a
computer (say mailhost.example.com) to handle mail
addressed to anyone @foo.example.com, and other
information.

There are also other naming systems in use, such as news
group names and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel names.

The usual labeling idea presented is to reserve a top level
name, such as .xxx for "adult" material and/or .kids for "safe"
material or the like. Ignoring the definitional and legal
problems there are technical and linguistic problems with this
are described in the subsections below.

4.1.1 Linguistic Problems

When using name labeling, the first problem is from whose
language do you take the names to impose? Words and
acronyms can have very different meanings if different
languages and the probability of confusion is multiplied when
phonetic collisions are considered.

As an example of possible problems, note that currently the
government of Turkmenistan has suspended new
registrations in ".tm", which had previously been a source of
revenue, because some of the registered second level
domain names may have been "legally obscene in
Turkmenistan". <http://www.nic.tm>





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4.1.2 The DNS Hierarchy and Use of TLDs

An important aspect of the design of the Domain Name
System (DNS) is the hierarchical delegation of data
maintenance. The DNS really only works, and has been able
to scale the five orders of magnitude it has grown since its
initial deployment, only due to this delegation.

The first minor problem is that one would expect most
computers or web sites to have a mix of material only some
of which should be specially classified. Using special TLDs
multiples the number of DNS zones the site has to worry
about. For example, assume the site has already sorted its
material into "kids", "normal, and "adult" piles. Without
special TLD labels, it can store them under
kids.example.net, adult.example.net, and other.example.net,
for instance, which requires only the maintenance of the
single example.net zone of database entries. With special
TLD labeling, at least example.net (for normal stuff),
example.net.xxx, and example.net.kids would need to be
maintained which are three separate zones in different parts
of the DNS tree. As the number of categories expands and
the number of category combinations explodes, this quickly
becomes completely unmanageable.

4.1.2 You Can't Control Who Points At You

The DNS system works as a database and associates
certain data, called resource records, or RRs, with domain
names. In particular, it can associate IP address resource
records with domain names. For example, when you browse
a URL, most commonly the domain name within that URL is
looked up in the DNS and the resulting address (see Section
4.2) is used to address the packets sent from your web
browser or other software to the server or peer.

Remember what we said in Section 4.1.1 about hierarchical
delegation? Anyone controlling a DNS zone of data, say
example.com, can insert data at that name or any deeper
name (except to the extent they maintain delegations of
some of the deeper namespace to yet others). So the
controller of example.com can insert data so that
purity.example.com has stored at it the same computer
address which is at www.obscene.example.xxx. This directs
any reference to purity.example.com to use the associated
IP address which is the same as the
www.obscene.example.xxx web site. The manager of that
hypothetical web site, who controls the example.xxx zone,
has no control over the example.com DNS zone and so is
technically incapable of causing it to conform to any "xxx"
labeling law. Or, in the alternative, someone could create a
name conforming to an adult labeling requirement that
actually pointed to someone else's entirely unobjectionable
site, perhaps for the purpose of polluting the labeling.


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Thus, providers of data on the Internet cannot stop anyone
from creating names pointing to their computer's IP address
with misleading domain names.



4.1.3 Particular Protocol Considerations

There are additional considerations related to particular
protocols. We consider only a few here. The first two,
electronic mail and the World Wide Web, use domain name
addressing. The second two, net news and IRC, actually use
different name spaces and illustrate further technical
problems with name based labeling.



4.1.3.1 Electronic Mail (SMTP)

The standard Internet electronic mail protocol separates
"envelope" information from content [RFC 821, 822]. The
envelope information indicates where a message claims to
have originated and to whom it should be delivered. The
content has fields starting with labels like "From:" and "To:"
but these actually have no effect and can be arbitrarily forged
using simple normally available software, such a telnetting to
the SMTP port on a mail server. Content fields are not
compared with envelope fields.

While different mail client display envelope information and
headers from the content of email differently, generally the
more common content fields are given prominence. Thus,
while not exactly the same as content labeling, it should be
noted that it is trivial to send mail to anyone with arbitrary
domain names in the email addresses appearing in the From
and To headers, etc.

It is also easy set up a host to forward mail to a mailing list.
Mail sent with normal mail tools to this forwarder will
automatically have content headers reflecting the forwarder's
name but the forwarder will change the envelope information
and cause the mail to be actually sent to the original list.
For example, (with names disguised) there is a social mailing
list innocuous@foo.example.org and someone set up a
forwarder at cat-torturers@other.example. Mail sent to the
forwarder is forwarded and appears on the innocuous mailing
list but with a "To: cat-torturers@other.example" header in its
body. In some cases, similar things can be done using the
"bcc" or blind courtesy copy feature of Internet mail.

Thus, standard Internet tools provide no way to control
domain names appearing inside email headers.

There is work proceeding on securing email; however, such
efforts at


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present only allow you to verify whether or not a particular
entity was the actual author of the mail. They do not
generally relate to controlling or authenticating domain
names in the content of the mail.



4.1.3.2 Web Access (HTTP)

At least with modern web servers and browsers supporting
HTTP 1.1 [RFC 2616], the domain name used to access the
site is available to access different web sites even though
they are on the same machine at the same IP address.

(more to come)



4.1.3.3 News (NNTP)

Net news uses hierarchical structured newsgroup names that
are similar in appearance to domain names except that the
most significant label is on the left and the least on the right,
the opposite of domain names. However, while the names
are structured hierarchically, there is no central control.
Instead, news servers periodically connect to other news
servers that have agreed to exchange messages with them
and then they update each other on messages only in those
newsgroups in which they wish to exchange messages.

(more to come)



4.1.3.4 Internet Relay Chat

Internet Relay Chat is another example of a service which
uses a different name space. (more to come)



4.2 IP Addressing

A key characteristic of the Internet Protocol (IP) on which the
Internet is based is that it breaks data up into "packets".
These packets are individually handled and routed from
source to destination. Each packet has in it a numeric
address for the destination point to which the Internet will try
to deliver the packet.



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(End users do not normally see these numeric addresses but
instead deal with "domain names" as described in section
4.1 above.)

The numeric address system now primarily in use is called
IPv4, or Internet Protocol Version 4, which provides for 32 bit
addresses. There is a move to migrate to IPv6, which
provides for 128 bit addresses.

One problem in using addressing for content filtering is that
this is a very coarse technique. IP addresses address
network interfaces which usually correspond to entire
computer systems which could house multiple web pages,
sets of files, etc., only a small part of which it was desired to
block or enable. Increasingly, a single IP address may
correspond to a NAT (Network Address Translation) box
[NAT] which hides multiple computers behind it, although in
that case these computers are usually not servers.

However, even beyond this problem of coarse granularity, the
practical constraints of hierarchical routing make the
allocation of even a single IPv4 address bit or any significant
number of IPv6 address bits impossible.



4.2.1 Hierarchical Routing

As packets of data flow through the Internet, decisions must
be made as to how to forward them "towards" their
destination. This is normally done by comparing the initial
bits of the packet destination address to entries in a "routing
table" and forwarding the packets as indicated by the table
entry with the longest prefix match.

While the Internet is actually a general mesh, if, for
simplicity, we consider it to have a central backbone at the
"top", a packet is typically routed as follows:

The local networking code looks at its routing table to
determine if the packet should be sent directly to another
computer on the "local" network, to a router to specially
forward it to another nearby network, or routed "up" to a
"default" router to forward it to a higher level service provider's
network. If the packet's destination is "far enough away" it
will eventually get forwarded up to a router on the backbone.
Such a router can not sent the packet "up" since it is at the
top or "default free" zone and must have a complete table of
what other top level router to send the packet to. Currently,
such top level routers are very large and expensive devices.
They must be able to maintain tables of tens of thousands of
routes. When the packet gets to the top level router of the
part of the network within which its destination lies, it get
forwarded "down" to successive routers which are more and
more specific and local until


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eventually its gets to a router on the local network where its
destination address lies. This local router sends the packet
directly to the destination computer.

Because all of these routing decisions are made on a longest
prefix match basis, it can be seen that IP addresses are not
general names or labels but are intimately associated with
the actual topology and routing structure of the network. If
there were assigned at random, routers would be required to
remember so many specific routes for specific addresses
that it would exceed the current technical capabilities for
router design.

It should also be noted that there is some inefficiency in
allocation at each level of hierarchy. Generally allocations
are of a power of two addresses and as requirements grow
and/or shrink, it is not practical to use every address for a
computer.

(The above simplified description ignores multi-homing and
many other details.)



4.2.2 IP Version 4 Addresses

There just isn't any practical way to reallocate even one bit of
IPv4 global Internet Addresses for content filtering use. Such
addresses are in short supply and such an allocation would,
in effect, cut the number of available addresses in half. There
just aren't enough addresses, given the efficiency of
hierarchical allocation and routing, to do this. Even if there
were, current numbers have not be allocated with this in mind
so that a renumbering within every organization with hosts on
the Internet would be required, a nightmarish and Herculean
task costing in the billions of dollars. Even if these problems
were overcome, the allocation of even a single bit would likely
double the number of routes in the default free zone,
exceeding the capacity of current routers and requiring the
upgrade of thousands of them to new routers that do not
exist yet.

And all this is for only a single bit, let alone more than one, is
allocated to content labeling.

Basically, the idea is a non-starter.



4.2.3 IP Version 6 Addresses

IPv6 provides 128 bit address fields. (more to come)

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4.3 PICS Labels

PICS Labels [PICS] have several modes. If content is
required to have labels in it, it raises all the problems of
categorization granularity and forced speech. But if used in a
mode whereby a third party determines and provides labels
for content and users are free to select whatever such third
party or parties they wish to consult, it is a way to permit a
myriad of categories, editors, and evaluators to exist in
parallel.

(more to come)



5. Conclusions

TBD
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References

[BT] - British Telecom comments to U.S. Commerce
Department, February 20, 1998,
<http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/B
T.htm>

[CDA] - Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 117 S.Ct.
2329, June 26, 1997,
<http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/96- 511.cpanel.html>

[COPAREPORT] - Final Report of the COPA Commission to
the U.S. Congress, October 20, 2000,
<http://www.copacommission.org/report/newtopleveldomain.s
html>

[GAO] - GAO Report OGC-00-33R, July 7, 2000,
<http://www.gao.gov/new.items/og00033r.pdf>

[GTLD-MOU] - GTLD-MOU Policy Oversight committee RFC
97-02, September 13, 1997, <http://www.gtld-
mou.org/docs/notice-97-02.html>

[HOUSEREPORT] - U.S. House Commerce Committee
report, 105th Congress, October 5, 1998.
<http://www.epic.org/free_speech/censorship/hr3783-
report.html>

[ICM-REGISTRY] - Request for reconsideration from ICM
Registry to ICANN, December 15, 2000,
<http://www.icann.org/committees/reconsideration/icm-
request- 16dec00.htm>

[LIEBERMAN] - Testimony of Senator Joe Lieberman before
Children's Online Protection Act Commission, June 8, 2000,
<http://www.senate.gov/~lieberman/press/00/06/2000608958
.html>

[NAT] - ...

[PICS] - Platform for Internet Content Selection Service
Descriptions <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-PICS-services>
Label Format and Distribution <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-
PICS- labels> PICS Rules <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-
PICSRules> PICS Signed Labels (DSIG) 1.0 Specification
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DSig-label/>

[RFC 791] - "Internet Protocol", J. Postel, September 1981.

[RFC 821] - "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", J. Postel, Aug-
01-1982.

[RFC 822] - "Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text
messages", D. Crocker, Aug-13-1982.



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[RFC 1034] - P. Mockapetris, "Domain Names - Concepts
and Facilities", STD 13, November 1987.

[RFC 1035] - P. Mockapetris, "Domain Names -
Implementation and Specifications", STD 13, November 1987.

[RFC 1591] - J. Postel, "Domain Name System Structure
and Delegation", March 1994.

[RFC 2396] - T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter,
"Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", August
1998.

[RFC 2460] - "Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6)
Specification", Deering, S. and R. Hinden, December 1998.

[RFC 2606] - D. Eastlake, A. Panitz, "Reserved Top Level
DNS Names", June 1999.

[RFC 2616] - "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", R.
Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P.
Leach, T. Berners- Lee, June 1999.

[WARSHAVSKY] - "Congress weighs Net porn bills," CNET
article, February 10, 1998, <http://news.cnet.com/news/0-
1005-200-326435.html>






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