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To be filed under the United-Nations-trying-to-stay-relevant-online department (we've seen this before at http://www.politechbot.com/p-00502.html). See this BBC article on the WHO plan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1021000/1021390.stm Excerpt: >The WHO has suggested a ".health" domain name be created as an address for >internet sites offering health news and advice. >Under the plans, those sites using this domain would have to meet high >standards in quality and ethics. >The ".health" domain would join the privileged list of other top level >domains, such as ".com" and ".org". >If the plans go ahead, the WHO would be responsible for regulating the >".health" sites. >It would draw up policies and standards governing this sector and would >decide which sites would be eligible to use the domain. This WHO press release: http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/pr2000-72.html Background on WHO: http://www.who.int/aboutwho/en/rapid.htm Criticism that WHO is biased toward regulation and has a "clearly predetermined political agenda": http://www.cato.org/dailys/07-05-00.html And this slashdot thread: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/15/1334224.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------