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Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Sat Mar 31 20:59:15 2007

In-Reply-To: <200704010016.l310GGwj003322@abenaki.wabanaki.net>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:45:55 -0700
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



On Mar 31, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine  
wrote:

> The temporal value of a domain that sinks phish click stream has  
> some decay
> property, that is, today's phish name of (check your inbox)  
> probably isn't
> very useful to the authors of the present phish (etc) decades from  
> now, or
> even days from now.

Certainly, in a case where everything works according to plan.

What about the inputs to the system, however, and the potential for  
abuse?  Who decides the legigitmacy/reputational value of a  
particular domain?  What about mistakes and collateral damage?

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