[95748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANNs role [was: Re: On-going ...]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Tue Apr 3 04:16:18 2007
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0704022045121.20288-100000@linuxbox.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:14:35 +0100
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3 Apr 2007, at 03:02, Gadi Evron wrote:
> What are your thoughts on basic suggestions such as:
> 1. Allowing registrars to terminate domains based on abuse, rather
> than just fake contact details.
I don't like this because its impossible to define abuse clearly
enough in this context.
If a fictitious web-shop 'nice-but-dim.com' get a box owned which has
the reverse dns set to something in that zone, is this abuse ?
Yes .. sort of, but it's no business of the registry. Is registering
a domain name which causes offense to some people abuse ? It might
be, but its no reason not to let the domain name registration go
through. What if you and I fall out, and I manage to build a case
against you to get linuxbox.org de-registered ? Do you want to spend
time and effort fighting it ?
Who arbitrates/polices this scheme ?
Who pays for any mistakes ?
Who decides when the domain name can be re-registered ?
What about when someone registers a domain name in an international
registry that doesn't want to implement the scheme, or perhaps isn't
allowed to because its governance forbids it ?
Some bad people have their names and numbers listed in the phone
book. I can setup a fraudulent window cleaning company with no
desire to do a good job for any of my customers .. does this mean 411
or the yellow pages should delist me when someone complains ? DNS is
another directory.
DNS is no more than a way for me to say "Hey, where's Fred', to get a
reply saying 'here he is'. DNS shouldn't whisper in my ear, 'but
Fred is a bit dodgy'. If Fred is doing something illegal he should
be in jail. This analogy isn't very good, but I need another coffee
before I can think of a better one. :-)
-a