On 1/31/2011 6:51 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Second - the mantra, meme, fallacy etc of the "we are not the XYZ police" that I keep hearing cited. It would be fun indeed if a bank manager sanctioned a loan for say a quarter of a million dollars (lets say comparable to an allocation for a /15) and then baldly state that he's not the document police .. That presentation about LIR deregistration is what I'd call partially shutting the barn door long after the horses, plural, have bolted.
That damage's been done, a lot of IP space has been poisoned. It is high time to realize that shooting the messenger is not the best way to deal with such a situation.
The challenge in making comparative references like this is to make sure the comparison has a reasonable basis. So, for example, banks are not expected to give loans to everyone. They are in fact /required/ to discriminate. (However even banks have limitations on the nature or extent of that discrimination.) A core problem with calls for differential handling of "abusive" domain registrations is that it opens the door to abuses by the authority. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net