On 1 Apr 2007, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > We're looking at the alligators surrounding us. Gadi is trying to > > convince us to help him in draining the swamp (which may indeed be a > > positive thing in the long run). > > > > Does that sound about right? > > that sounds exactly wrong. harkening back to my experience with "check-names" > i can tell you that all i did was scare away a few alligators and the swamp > remained. (probably the same was true of the original MAPS RBL.) what we've > got in the DNS registry/registrar market today is as corrupt and abusable as > the California electricity market was back in 2000-2001, and we're seeing the > same kind of windfalls enjoyed by the same kind of assholes now as then. the > system is ripe for policing, which icann has shown that they will not do. i > want to see gadi in "ralph nader" mode, shining a light on all this, making it > harder to profit from building the "infrastructure of evil." if that's what > you meant by swamp-draining, then i apologize for misunderstanding you.
So, is the infrastructure in question which is an abuse infrastructure, the ICANN policy and registry/registrars combination on TLD management and domain registration/revokation? I can testify as to some registrars (enom, godaddy, tucows, etc.) being very responsive and some registries (read .info) being very cooperative. OBVIOUSLY this is not the case for everyone. I can testify as to ICANN folks being clued-in and helpful as far as they can under current policies which make ICANN itself being very much non-existent when it comes to security and abuse. Gadi. > -- > Paul Vixie >