-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
Anyone been following the Registerfly fiasco? Since 2000, the ICANN registrar agreement has required registrars to escrow their registrant data according to ICANN's specs. It's been seven years, ICANN is just now sending out an RFP to set up escrow providers, only because they've been shamed into it when people discovered that there were no backups of Registerfly's registrant data.
Yes, it is a pretty sad commentary on ICANN's ability to follow through on policy.
Even if ICANN should try to do this, registrars will push back like crazy since most of them have a minimum price mininum service business model. In retrospect, it was a huge mistake to drop the price and let Verisign and their friends mass merchandise domains as a fashion accessory, but it's much too late to put that genie back in the bottle.
Well, that's a pretty sober commentary unto itself. I ask you: What would you suggest? It's quite hard to craft technical solutions to policy failures. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.1 (Build 1012) wj8DBQFGVlSiq1pz9mNUZTMRAgTkAKCEw1bovM6kP9BNA+iRlMj54dNaQgCfZXUa twkU7qcLFASkvC1GKoQFFjo= =7/bs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
I ask you: What would you suggest? It's quite hard to craft technical solutions to policy failures.
Since the registrar business has degenerated into a race to the bottom, I don't see anything better than setting a floor that is the minimal allowable bottom. Since ICANN has neither the inclination nor the competence to do that, and they have no control over ccTLDs anyway, that means (egad!) regulation. Yeah, I know the Internet is all over the world, but as a participant in the London Action Plan, an informal talking shop of the bits of governments that deal with online crime, spam, etc., I can report that pretty much all of the countries that matter realize there's a problem, and a lot of them have passed or will pass laws whether we like it or not. So it behooves us to engage them and help them pass better rather than worse laws. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
On May 24, 2007, at 10:45 PM, John Levine wrote:
I ask you: What would you suggest? It's quite hard to craft technical solutions to policy failures.
Since the registrar business has degenerated into a race to the bottom, I don't see anything better than setting a floor that is the minimal allowable bottom. Since ICANN has neither the inclination nor the competence to do that, and they have no control over ccTLDs anyway, that means (egad!) regulation.
Yeah, I know the Internet is all over the world, but as a participant in the London Action Plan, an informal talking shop of the bits of governments that deal with online crime, spam, etc., I can report that pretty much all of the countries that matter realize there's a problem, and a lot of them have passed or will pass laws whether we like it or not. So it behooves us to engage them and help them pass better rather than worse laws.
Agreed, but adding a preview process doesn't cost much and would help establish stability. There are millions of domains churning every day. Just keeping track of which domains are new is costly. Once it becomes common place for providers to withhold DNS information of new domains, does it really make sense to permit domain records to change frequently and within milliseconds after some holding period? While provisions should be established for granting exceptions, requiring a 12 hour zone preview before going "live" should lead to significant reductions in the amount of criminal activity depending upon this insane agility that thwarts tracking and takedowns. Allow security entities time to correlate upcoming domain changes, and this swamp will drain rapidly. -Doug
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