Amar- ----- Original Message ----- From: "amar" <amar@telia.net> To: "Richard Forno" <rforno@infowarrior.org> Cc: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@fugawi.net>; "Jake Baillie" <jake@priva.com>; "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>; <nanog@merit.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 5:54 AM Subject: Re: ICANN requirement for "information refreshing"?
Richard Forno wrote:
Is funny that both ICANN and law enforcement are trying to clean up
whois
information to facilitate investigative capabilities.
Well yes and no. It actually has administrative value in the prosecuting of the real bad guys... So its not such a bad idea.
What a crock.
No what you mean is "damn, this is real work and we as a carrier or ISP have never had to deal with this before. Wah Wah Wah" - but you guys are the smoking gun... Personally I suggest that its time to acknowledge that we need to change this global concept of a single Internet into a collection of National or Jurisdictionally-defined Internets. We of course would need to build a bridging system between the networks and that would potentially be the UN's problem per se. Personally I refer to this new structure as Internet-II.
On paper, and in theory, having 'clean' whois data is nice, and helpful
for
tech problems,
yes it would be but what it is missing is the "need to do anything about the bad information and adding the ability to react to Domain Evilness in moments rather than hours, days, or months" - which BTW, is why ATLAS - the new DNS Service Infrastructure from Verisign is so freakin' cool. It can unpublish an Address in six seconds supposedly...
which is the reason I think why it's there in the first place.
Sort of. But that was before the public transition of the Internet from the previous Government Sponsored networking models.
As if nobody thought about having a 'front man' doing a registration, or even that the Registrars will be able to truly implement such
data-integrity
protocols, among any other ways to muck with this info.
Agreed - Front men are expendible but at some point there will be a link back to the bad-guys and they will get caught.
I mean, garbage in, garbage out.
yes and no - this is one of the strongest arguments for compartmentalizing the Internet there is, that the ISP's and Registrars have refused any responsibiliy with what is done with their offereings (BW in the ISP's case and Name Service in the Registrars Case.)
Are they going to go door-to-door like censustakers to verify this info?
No just Department of Justice investigators in the US...
The reality is it will never work, and besides - any smart criminal will simply use another domain name, or not even USE a domain name...
So how many smart criminals are there???
..a power-user computer criminal shouldn't have problems remembering a few IP addys.
Most of that is becuase Sendmail is the Industry Standard and it has no pre-authentication process for what it accepts of delivers.
If they can't, they're stupid and deserve to be caught.
Yes, well what was that line "Pris" utters in Blade Runner - "Then we are stupid and deserve to die"...
Well, rfc-ignorant.org have a different view:
http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-whois.html
-- amar