Re: Is Your Web Site A Secret?
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 97 13:26:42 +0100
>I completely agree with your viewpoint but the problem is that it will be
>difficult to take a legal action against this organization and win.
>I think RIPE's legal counselor may inform us about the possibility of such
>an action?
>
>> May I humbly suggest that the appropriate person take whatever legal action
>> that required against this organisation.
You're probably right about the difficulty of legal action.
How about using peer pressure among ISPs, though? Suppose
there was a URL where, each week/month, a list of the top
20 abusers of the Internet, giving the ISP they came from,
were published? Maybe this is already being done?
Some advantages of this approach:
1. Peer pressure can be effective cf CIDR deployment.
2. It encourages (ante-factum) deterrence as distinct from
(post-factum) retribution.
3. It offers a means of measuring the amount of idiocy on
the Internet, as against the amount of information. It
is suspected that the rate of growth of the former exceeds
that of the latter.
4. It doesn't (explicitly) involve lawyers and legal costs.
Mike Norris
