To: "Alan DeKok" <aland(_at_)freeradius(_dot_)org>
> Yakov Shafranovich <research(_at_)solidmatrix(_dot_)com> wrote:
> > I would suggest in general that the working group should recommend to
> > ICANN a stricter enforcement of the WHOIS rules
>
>
> I support this proposal.
>
> Does anyone have time to write a proposal for BCP, to fight spam
> by better applying existing network policy?
>
> Alan DeKok.
I'm sure this has been done a few times... in "local" forms
there's
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-206.html
for instance.
Of course this is aimed at ISPs.
What I meant is more of a recommendation to ICANN directly. However the
problem with overall "recommendations", "policies", and such and making
sure that they are actually enforced, and I am not sure who much impact
would a direct recommendation to ICANN, a BCP or a RFC would make. As
someone pointed out, if the RFC821 recommendations are not enforced, how
can we make sure that anything else is. Plus as I mentioned in a different
message, we need to draw a balance as to how much is actually required from
the registrars. At the minimum the registrars should be revoke or seize
domains that have false contact information which does not put as much
strain on them, as verifying manually every single registration would.
Additionally, perhaps a registrar should be able to do the same for any
domain used for spam (this can be accomplished via terms of agreement or
change in the overall ICANN policy). However, this would mean giving
stronger power to the registrars and as the famous quote goes "power corrupts".
I think its a bit premature to actually go ahead and make such
recommendation, but we can definitely think of a proposal.
Yakob
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Yakov Shafranovich / <research(_at_)solidmatrix(_dot_)com>
SolidMatrix Research, a division of SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc.
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