[anti-abuse-wg] Draft Anti-Abuse WG Minutes - RIPE 61

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.

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   Dave Crocker
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