[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Action item - gap assessment

[Rob Golding]

> On Aug 17, 2016, at 6:42 AM, Ayden Férdeline wrote:
>> Sure, a few crimes might be solved, but a thousand times more would
>> be instigated by identify thieves, spammers, and stalkers. The same
>> concerns apply here to WHOIS or whatever form the RDS may take.

On 2016-08-17 12:25, Victoria Sheckler wrote:
> What evidence do you have to support that claim?

Anecdotal mathematics will be able to make that justification ... So 
whilst the number "1000" is purely a guess, the concept that it would be 
"more" is sound ...

If you start with the simple assumption that a LawEnforcementAgent has a 
primary task of stopping a Criminal
(which ignores the multitude of other roles, tasks, responsibilties and 
so-on that modern "policing" actually covers) :

* there are more people in jail than there are police
  - therefore there are more crime-committers than crime-stoppers

* criminals to crimes is a 1-to-many relationship
  - there is no magic fairy counting the number of crimes and somehow 
stopping a criminal at one

Ergo, if you introduce something which is equally able to be used to 
find a criminal and commit a crime, the crime number will always be 
higher by that reasoning.

Whether something should be 
allowed/restricted/controlled/banned/not-even-made because of either of 
those 2 "extremes" is the question.

I like to think that the %age of people criminals and the %age of people 
who are lawenforcement is an infinitisimally small number in comparison 
to the massive amount of people who are neither - thus it is the 
impact/effect on them (positively or negatively) that matters.


Rob