[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] WSGR Final Memorandum

John Bambenek jcb at bambenekconsulting.com
Fri Sep 29 15:51:48 UTC 2017


This is intentionally inflammatory. If that were true, we'd already have
hit squads roaming the planet. And likely, we'd have a whole lot less
spam and abuse. But it's not only not true, you KNOW its not true.

You're just dumping fuel on a fire. For what purpose, I have no idea.


On 9/29/2017 9:54 AM, Volker Greimann wrote:
>
> Hi Allison,
>
> it appears you belong to the school of thinking that any means is
> legitimate to catch or prevent crime, whereas I belong to the school
> of thinking that limits those means the means not infringing on the
> rights of third parties. That is ok, we agree to disagree and move on.
>
>
> Am 29.09.2017 um 16:12 schrieb allison nixon:
>> [Volker's mail]
>> >>the reason why phishing, spam, and malware never appeared in the
>> document is because they have nothing to do with the question of
>> privacy rights. Except that violating such rights exposes the data
>> subjects to those forms of abuse.
>>
>> False. What makes copyright violation(which was spoken about numerous
>> times in the doc) more relevant than spam/fraud/phishing/malware? Who
>> made that determination? It was stated numerous times that the rights
>> of the registrant have to be weighed against the rights of the people
>> exposed to these domains. Since spam, fraud, phishing, malware, are
>> all issues relevant to the general public, they are relevant issues
>> to weigh. This sounds like an attempt to throw out an issue because
>> no sane counter-argument exists for it. You are once again trolling
>> the group with irrelevant and illogical arguments while attempting to
>> throw out arguments that are relevant.
> Again, I expect a retraction and apology. Not accepting my argument
> does not entitle anyone to name-calling or questioning my motives,
> especially when the person making the allegations is doing the very
> same thing he/she is alleging me of doing to invalidate my arguments.
>
> Anyway, your comment has nothing to do with the point I was making. No
> one is making one form of abuse more relevant than another. Yet when
> weighing the prevention of abuse against the legal rights of
> uninvolved third parties, those third parties win, unless there is a
> legal justification that these rights may be infringed upon or set aside.
>
>
>>
>> [Volker's mail]
>> >>I agree that this group does not make policy for ccTLDs, but we do
>> not operate in a vacuum. ccTLDs - due to the variety of their
>> approaches - have been an ideal policy testing ground and I see no
>> reasons not to take what works from the various ccTLD policies. If
>> something works well for .eu, why should it not also work well for
>> .africa, for example? or .com?
>>
>> Quite a few ccTLDs require additional identifying information to
>> prove that the person is a resident of that country or that there is
>> a physical corporate presence within the country. We could follow
>> that model if you're so interested in that- quite a few ccTLDs have
>> very low rates of abuse due to the elaborate checks in place to
>> resolve the registrant to a known person or entity. Are you willing
>> to front the costs? You aren't, because you are trolling.
>
> I am aware of these models, we are specialized in serving next to all
> ccTLDs after all. In most cases such verification does not occur at
> the time of registration though, and when it does, it is usually not a
> European registry. And yes, there are even those where it is, and in
> those cases, that information, while collected, is for the exclusive
> use of the registry and not being published. And finally, where such
> publication does occur despite privacy regulations being in place as
> well, there always is a legal basis for it, not the whim of the registry.
>
>>
>> [Volker's mail]
>> >>it is interesting that despite studies showing there is no
>> correlation between domain abuse and use of domain privacy, the same
>> argument is being raised again and again.
>>
>> A convenient misinterpretation of the facts. It's not a reliable
>> indicator, it is one factor out of many, and it is a significant
>> factor. No single indicator is a reliable indicator. you are once
>> again trolling.
> It seems you are really running out of good arguments if this baseless
> and unwarranted accusation is all you have to bring to the table to
> counter my argument.
>
> Best,
> Volker
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 9:05 AM, John Bambenek via gnso-rds-pdp-wg
>> <gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org <mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     I think you mistake his point. Domain whois data IS useful in
>>     fighting abuse according to everyone who actually fights abuse.
>>     The report referenced making the statement it did shows there
>>     remains a misunderstanding on that point. 
>>
>>     Sent from my iPad
>>
>>     On Sep 29, 2017, at 3:20 AM, Volker Greimann
>>     <vgreimann at key-systems.net <mailto:vgreimann at key-systems.net>> wrote:
>>
>>>     Hi Theo,
>>>
>>>     it is interesting that despite studies showing there is no
>>>     correlation between domain abuse and use of domain privacy, the
>>>     same argument is being raised again and again. from my own
>>>     experience of looking at the abuse complaints we receive, I note
>>>     that only a small fraction of abusive registrations use our
>>>     privacy functions. In most cases, harvested real data is used
>>>     instead.
>>>
>>>     Best,
>>>
>>>     Volker
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>     https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sadag-final-09aug17-en.pdf
>>>>     <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sadag-final-09aug17-en.pdf>
>>>>
>>>>     This report mentions: The usage of Privacy or Proxy Services by
>>>>     itself is not a reliable indicator of abuse.
>>>>
>>>>     Thanks again,
>>>>
>>>>     Theo
>>>>
>>>>     Again it is clear now, thanks all.
>>>>     On 28-9-2017 20:50, Dotzero wrote:
>>>>>     To add to what Allison has indicated, websites do analysis of
>>>>>     these sorts of datapoints for evaluating transactions for
>>>>>     fraud and potential abuse. For example, signups form domains
>>>>>     that have private registrations have a very high propensity to
>>>>>     be related to abuse. Signups and visits to our websites from
>>>>>     IP addresses belonging to hosting providers have an even
>>>>>     higher correlation with abuse (how many endusers browse the
>>>>>     web from severs in datacenters?).
>>>>>
>>>>>     This is not police action, it is organizations protecting
>>>>>     themselves, their other users and the internet at large from
>>>>>     abusive activity.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Michael Hammer
>>>>>
>>>>>     On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 2:33 PM, allison nixon
>>>>>     <elsakoo at gmail.com <mailto:elsakoo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>         Reputation is based on a lot of different points not just
>>>>>         contents of WHOIS data. If the .EU TLD can keep its
>>>>>         customer base clean, there isn't much need for WHOIS data
>>>>>         for the most part, however this group doesn't make policy
>>>>>         for ccTLDs. For other TLDs that this group does recommend
>>>>>         policy for, for example, .XYZ, which boasts a
>>>>>         greater-than-90-percent rate of maliciousness, any
>>>>>         legitimate domain in that space will need some other
>>>>>         points of reputation to make up for that. WHOIS is part of
>>>>>         that, including the age, and actual contact details.
>>>>>
>>>>>         That said, WHOIS data is an important part of tracing
>>>>>         ownership and it can have consequences for the registrant.
>>>>>
>>>>>         Recently we had to deal with a ccTLD of .ir that was being
>>>>>         used to control large botnets. The current and historical
>>>>>         WHOIS data showed signs that a legitimate registrant's
>>>>>         account was stolen to do this. Thus, when the complaint
>>>>>         was sent to the registrar, the registrant was not accused
>>>>>         of running botnets, but instead the registrar was alerted
>>>>>         to an abuse of the service and they could take action
>>>>>         accordingly. If the ownership of this domain could not be
>>>>>         traced, and if there were not skilled investigators on the
>>>>>         other end, would the registrant have been in danger of
>>>>>         going to an Iranian prison? 
>>>>>
>>>>>         It turns out, the ccTLD of .ir was specifically chosen
>>>>>         because the criminals thought the poor international
>>>>>         relations would hamper law enforcement action. However
>>>>>         WHOIS and the transparency it provides allowed people to
>>>>>         discover the truth and prevent serious problems. By
>>>>>         locking up WHOIS behind court orders, these cross-border
>>>>>         issues will become worse.
>>>>>
>>>>>         Also, to be clear since a lot of people can't seem to tell
>>>>>         the difference, everything we did was well within the
>>>>>         bounds of civil action, we weren't "pretending to be the
>>>>>         police" or any of the other things people in this group
>>>>>         accuse security companies of doing when they deal with
>>>>>         malware. Any member of the public can file an abuse complaint.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 2:10 PM, theo geurts
>>>>>         <gtheo at xs4all.nl <mailto:gtheo at xs4all.nl>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>             Allison,
>>>>>
>>>>>             Does this problem also exsist with TLDs like .EU, .NL,
>>>>>             .DE, .FR just to name a few ccTLDs?
>>>>>
>>>>>             Curious,
>>>>>
>>>>>             Theo
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>             On 28-9-2017 19:42, allison nixon wrote:
>>>>>>             >> So, I can see a day that if privacy advocates
>>>>>>             and/or EU legislation fears prevent such a Best
>>>>>>             Practice as proper WHOIS records, the service
>>>>>>             providers will simply choose practices, such as 'you
>>>>>>             cannot access our service unless you have public
>>>>>>             whois information available'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             It's already happening. Try sending an e-mail using a
>>>>>>             domain behind WHOIS privacy. Some anti-spam systems
>>>>>>             drop it straight in the garbage because WHOIS privacy
>>>>>>             is already a negative reputation point. If WHOIS gets
>>>>>>             shut down, I fully expect groups like Spamhaus,
>>>>>>             M3AAWG, APWG, etc, to publish a set of guidelines
>>>>>>             that registrants need to abide by in order to send
>>>>>>             mail, or be accessible by people behind corporate
>>>>>>             firewalls that block based on reputation. ICANN must
>>>>>>             understand that they are at risk of losing relevancy
>>>>>>             if they want to take this hardline approach, because
>>>>>>             if a law breaks the continued functioning of a
>>>>>>             network, the network will route around it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             Look at the "cookies" EU law. Did that actually stop
>>>>>>             any websites from using cookies? No, it just created
>>>>>>             a popup that no one reads but everyone clicks through
>>>>>>             to visit the website. Because breaking cookies breaks
>>>>>>             websites. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             >>Some of us have real jobs too..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             which is the main reason why i can't spend 8 hours
>>>>>>             every day watching this group, unlike some people
>>>>>>             here who have been active in this group for years now. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             My response to Chuck's email earlier, I bolded the
>>>>>>             responses and tagged the start and end of my replies
>>>>>>             for clarity:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 "independent answers to the same questions we
>>>>>>                 asked the European data protection experts
>>>>>>                 earlier in the year"
>>>>>>                 [Chuck Gomes] That was a request from WG members
>>>>>>                 who felt that the DP experts might be biased. 
>>>>>>                 The questions were developed by the WG.  There
>>>>>>                 were two primary reasons for using the same
>>>>>>                 questions: 1) both groups would be responding to
>>>>>>                 the same questions and therefore make it easy to
>>>>>>                 compare; 2) the questions were approved by the WG.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             *<allison>I don't think anyone accused the DP experts
>>>>>>             of being biased. The objection was that the questions
>>>>>>             themselves were biased. The words "phishing" and
>>>>>>             "spam" and "malware" never once appeared in this
>>>>>>             entire document, despite being major core issues. The
>>>>>>             only abuse issues that were focused on were in
>>>>>>             relation to intellectual property violation and
>>>>>>             harassment of women, both of which are not the major
>>>>>>             issues most of us deal with on a daily basis(not to
>>>>>>             belittle them but they are generally not the reason
>>>>>>             why we are here today). The word "fraud" was
>>>>>>             mentioned once in a question and then never directly
>>>>>>             addressed in the response.*
>>>>>>             *
>>>>>>             *
>>>>>>             *Additionally, my entire industry was grossly
>>>>>>             misrepresented in question #6. None of us operate
>>>>>>             with police powers, and none of us pretend to have
>>>>>>             any. When we submit a complaint to a registrar about
>>>>>>             one of their customers breaking the law, the
>>>>>>             illegality of the act provides necessary
>>>>>>             justification for the registrar to drop the customer
>>>>>>             without a refund. This is not prosecution of a crime,
>>>>>>             and claiming it is such is a lie. Evidence of
>>>>>>             breaking the law is necessary because registrars
>>>>>>             aren't just going to take down any customer we say we
>>>>>>             don't like. I wholly object to the entire line they
>>>>>>             continued on about cybersecurity companies and
>>>>>>             "quasi-police powers", because the question never
>>>>>>             differentiated between civil and criminal actions and
>>>>>>             it was therefore misleading. *
>>>>>>             *
>>>>>>             *
>>>>>>             *None of the questions addressed the issues that
>>>>>>             registrants have where their WHOIS and other
>>>>>>             reputation points affect the de-facto functionality
>>>>>>             of a domain, for example a domain's functionality is
>>>>>>             hampered when it is on blocklists. Or if someone
>>>>>>             sends a complaint against the domain and has no tools
>>>>>>             to differentiate the registrant from the criminal (as
>>>>>>             registrar accounts are often hacked), then the
>>>>>>             incorrect accusation can also affect the operability
>>>>>>             of the domain as it is mistakenly taken down in
>>>>>>             confusion. None of the questions ask about conflicts
>>>>>>             between GDPR and basic network-level-functionality of
>>>>>>             domains.*
>>>>>>             *
>>>>>>             *
>>>>>>             *Also, none of the questions ask if a free
>>>>>>             no-obligation alternative (whois privacy protect)
>>>>>>             enhances the validity of consent given for making
>>>>>>             WHOIS records public. </allison>*
>>>>>>              
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 So we weren't allowed to ask questions of these
>>>>>>                 legal experts? You know, they can't magically
>>>>>>                 divine all legitimate use cases. The session with
>>>>>>                 the EU data protection experts earlier this year
>>>>>>                 is the exact same one we objected to because anti
>>>>>>                 abuse use cases got exactly zero representation.
>>>>>>                 So why choose that exact set of questions again
>>>>>>                 especially since an entire group of people have
>>>>>>                 joined the group afterwards(actually, due to this
>>>>>>                 specific problem of lack of representation)? And
>>>>>>                 then label it "final", really.
>>>>>>                 [Chuck Gomes] We didn’t ask them to consider use
>>>>>>                 cases except as they were relevant to the
>>>>>>                 questions we asked; that is our job and we
>>>>>>                 prepared a list of those a long time ago.  We
>>>>>>                 asked them to focus on their understanding of
>>>>>>                 European Data Protection law.  Our WG has a good
>>>>>>                 mix of people that use RDS data for different uses.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>>>             *<allison>And his answers are borderline useless. The
>>>>>>             scenarios presented were extremely poor, and not
>>>>>>             reflecting today's Internet and the problems network
>>>>>>             operators face. For example, when he writes "This
>>>>>>             means that the term 'vital interest' is to be
>>>>>>             interpreted as referring to an individual’s life,
>>>>>>             health, safety, or other such interest that is
>>>>>>             essential to their physical wellbeing", he goes on to
>>>>>>             talk about IP violations, the rights of a child, the
>>>>>>             economic interests of a search engine, finally
>>>>>>             concluding "we believe that the **conditions for
>>>>>>             using the 'legitimate interests' legal basis would
>>>>>>             not be satisfied".*
>>>>>>             *
>>>>>>             *
>>>>>>             *That's a complete misrepresentation of the interests
>>>>>>             at stake here. The issue at hand is not the economic
>>>>>>             interests of one company nor about mere copyright
>>>>>>             infringement. The WHOIS data resource is used to
>>>>>>             combat all types of fraud, international espionage,
>>>>>>             rigging of elections, and so many hostile attacks.
>>>>>>             Some of these attacks, especially DDOS, frequently
>>>>>>             threaten basic functionality of the Internet. It has
>>>>>>             an international strategic value and promotes lawful
>>>>>>             behavior far more than it hurts. It's used to create
>>>>>>             cleaner, safer networks. There are countless
>>>>>>             documented instances where WHOIS played a key role
>>>>>>             and where the replacement system would have allowed
>>>>>>             the malicious behavior to continue. All of these
>>>>>>             facts have been conveniently left out of the
>>>>>>             question, and since the lawyer can't be expected to
>>>>>>             know all this, he has no choice but to conclude that
>>>>>>             the legitimate interests provided are too weak.
>>>>>>             </allison>*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 Havent gone through it yet, will do so as i get
>>>>>>                 time. Expecting to see the same result one can
>>>>>>                 expect when one doesn't represent entire groups
>>>>>>                 of constituencies.
>>>>>>                 [Chuck Gomes] What do you mean by representing
>>>>>>                 ‘entire groups of constituencies’?  Do you
>>>>>>                 represent an entire constituency?  Are you aware
>>>>>>                 of any constituencies who are not represented in
>>>>>>                 the WG?  If so, please encourage them to participate.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             *<allison>Dozens of people joined this mailing list
>>>>>>             after numerous events demonstrated that this working
>>>>>>             group did not consider the overall well being of the
>>>>>>             Internet, and had a completely skewed idea of the
>>>>>>             problems the Internet faces today. People were
>>>>>>             outraged that this group was going in the direction
>>>>>>             it was going, ignoring how the Internet actually
>>>>>>             works. The fact that these questions were chosen- and
>>>>>>             the fact that the new membership(especially those
>>>>>>             that joined after the questions were initially asked)
>>>>>>             were not given any opportunity to provide input on
>>>>>>             questions to the lawyer- does not reflect well on the
>>>>>>             leadership of this working group. Even when the
>>>>>>             original questions were created, as far as I can
>>>>>>             tell, only people physically present at that meeting
>>>>>>             had any chance to provide input. For those of us with
>>>>>>             jobs in operations, being ever-present for this
>>>>>>             working group is impossible, and none of us have the
>>>>>>             stamina that some of the people here have, because we
>>>>>>             are busy working. *
>>>>>>             *
>>>>>>             *
>>>>>>             *At its most charitable interpretation, the choice of
>>>>>>             these specific questions could be an innocent
>>>>>>             oversight or miscommunication. At its least
>>>>>>             charitable, it looks like ICANN's money was wasted on
>>>>>>             a procedural trick to keep facts out of the
>>>>>>             conversation and continue to push a narrow agenda.*
>>>>>>             *
>>>>>>             *
>>>>>>             *People from numerous unrelated Internet companies
>>>>>>             and law firms flooded this group earlier this year
>>>>>>             once sunshine was shed on this group's activities.
>>>>>>             Maybe that's important. Please take it seriously.
>>>>>>             </allison>*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Michael Peddemors
>>>>>>             <michael at linuxmagic.com
>>>>>>             <mailto:michael at linuxmagic.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 IMHO, If ICANN cannot figure out how to make a
>>>>>>                 proper functioning WHOIS policy, we have to
>>>>>>                 remember that the community at large will, and
>>>>>>                 then simply, ICANN will loose relevance on this
>>>>>>                 issue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 No one passed a law that a mail server had to
>>>>>>                 have a functioning PTR record, (well yes, some
>>>>>>                 international spam legislations clearly spelled
>>>>>>                 out the need for clearly specifying the operator)
>>>>>>                 but if you want to send email today, functionally
>>>>>>                 you need a PTR record.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 Only problem is, that often it is the biggest
>>>>>>                 players that set those standards, and it is the
>>>>>>                 role of organizations like ICANN to level the
>>>>>>                 field, and make sure that directions aren't
>>>>>>                 dictated by the biggest players on the block, and
>>>>>>                 never more so in a world of consolidation and
>>>>>>                 cloud providers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 I think it was Yahoo that was one of the first
>>>>>>                 big players to simply not accept connections from
>>>>>>                 IP(s) with no PTR, and I know we were one of the
>>>>>>                 early adopters to that strategy..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 So, I can see a day that if privacy advocates
>>>>>>                 and/or EU legislation fears prevent such a Best
>>>>>>                 Practice as proper WHOIS records, the service
>>>>>>                 providers will simply choose practices, such as
>>>>>>                 'you cannot access our service unless you have
>>>>>>                 public whois information available'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 It would be far better if ICANN can understand
>>>>>>                 the importance of that need, and make a statement
>>>>>>                 that everyone can get behind and point to, that
>>>>>>                 levels that field, in 'spite' of possible
>>>>>>                 contradictory privacy information.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 Let's just simple keep these two conversations
>>>>>>                 separate, one should NOT affect the other, this
>>>>>>                 isn't a privacy vs information publishing
>>>>>>                 standards issue, we can have both.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 (And again, I assert that simply 'informed
>>>>>>                 consent' can always deal with any situations
>>>>>>                 where they conflict)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                         -- Michael --
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 PS, my concern is that this lengthy wrangling
>>>>>>                 prevents real work from getting done, and the
>>>>>>                 participants who are integral to this
>>>>>>                 conversation will fall by the way side, and the
>>>>>>                 lobbyist's will simply wear them down ..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 Some of us have real jobs too..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 On 17-09-27 02:58 PM, John Bambenek via
>>>>>>                 gnso-rds-pdp-wg wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                     A simple policy proscription would be, for
>>>>>>                     instance, to say under US law if you get a
>>>>>>                     domain under the control of a US registrar,
>>>>>>                     we need you to consent to full disclosure.
>>>>>>                     Don't like it, pick a European ccTLD. I don't
>>>>>>                     advocate that, mind you, but that's the kind
>>>>>>                     of policy balkanization could produce.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                     j
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                     On 09/27/2017 04:31 PM, Paul Keating wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                         I am failing to understand how such a
>>>>>>                         walled-garden approach will solve anything.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                         1.EU <http://1.EU> registrars/registries
>>>>>>                         would still have to deal with GDPR.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                         2.Registrars are not aided by the
>>>>>>                         distinction since they would still end up
>>>>>>                         with EU customers and EU registrant data.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                         PRK
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                         From: <gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces at icann.org
>>>>>>                         <mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces at icann.org>
>>>>>>                         <mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces at icann.org
>>>>>>                         <mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces at icann.org>>>
>>>>>>                         on behalf of jonathan matkowsky
>>>>>>                         <jonathan.matkowsky at riskiq.net
>>>>>>                         <mailto:jonathan.matkowsky at riskiq.net>
>>>>>>                         <mailto:jonathan.matkowsky at riskiq.net
>>>>>>                         <mailto:jonathan.matkowsky at riskiq.net>>>
>>>>>>                         Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at
>>>>>>                         11:03 PM
>>>>>>                         To: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk at nic.br
>>>>>>                         <mailto:rubensk at nic.br>
>>>>>>                         <mailto:rubensk at nic.br
>>>>>>                         <mailto:rubensk at nic.br>>>
>>>>>>                         Cc: RDS PDP WG <gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org
>>>>>>                         <mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org>
>>>>>>                         <mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org
>>>>>>                         <mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org>>>
>>>>>>                         Subject: Re: [gnso-rds-pdp-wg] WSGR Final
>>>>>>                         Memorandum
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                             Assuming for argument's sake that's
>>>>>>                         true without taking any
>>>>>>                             position as I'm still catching up
>>>>>>                         from a week ago, I'm not sure
>>>>>>                             this should be dismissed without
>>>>>>                         consideration as a possibility,
>>>>>>                             although obviously not by any stretch
>>>>>>                         of the imagination ideal -->
>>>>>>                             non-EU registrars block EU
>>>>>>                         registrants, and registries contract
>>>>>>                             with non-EU registrars.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                             On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 8:25 PM,
>>>>>>                         Rubens Kuhl <rubensk at nic.br
>>>>>>                         <mailto:rubensk at nic.br>
>>>>>>                             <mailto:rubensk at nic.br
>>>>>>                         <mailto:rubensk at nic.br>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                                     On Sep 26, 2017, at 7:17 PM,
>>>>>>                             John Horton
>>>>>>                                     <john.horton at legitscript.com
>>>>>>                             <mailto:john.horton at legitscript.com>
>>>>>>                                    
>>>>>>                             <mailto:john.horton at legitscript.com
>>>>>>                             <mailto:john.horton at legitscript.com>>>
>>>>>>                             wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                                     Much of this problem goes
>>>>>>                             away if we all agree that EU-based
>>>>>>                                     registrars should henceforth
>>>>>>                             only be allowed to accept
>>>>>>                                     registrants in the EU. Aside
>>>>>>                             from the effect on EU
>>>>>>                                     registrars' revenue, what's
>>>>>>                             the logical argument against that
>>>>>>                                     from a policy perspective?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                                     After all, isn't the purpose
>>>>>>                             of the GDPR to protect _EU
>>>>>>                                     residents_?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                                 That's correct, but the
>>>>>>                         conclusion is not. Non-EU registrars
>>>>>>                                 are also subject to GDPR if
>>>>>>                         targeting EU customers, which
>>>>>>                                 could be as simple as providing
>>>>>>                         services in EU languages and
>>>>>>                                 accepting registration
>>>>>>                         transactions from the EU.
>>>>>>                                 So, for the problem to go away
>>>>>>                         non-EU registrars would need to
>>>>>>                                 block EU registrants, and
>>>>>>                         registries would only be able to
>>>>>>                                 enter contracts with non-EU
>>>>>>                         registrars.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                                 So EU users would either be happy
>>>>>>                         using numeric IP addresses,
>>>>>>                                 or develop a naming system of
>>>>>>                         their own. Then we would have
>>>>>>                                 balkanisation, this time actually
>>>>>>                         including the original balkans.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                                 Rubens
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                                
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> Bei weiteren Fragen stehen wir Ihnen gerne zur Verfügung.
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>
> Volker A. Greimann
> - Rechtsabteilung -
>
> Key-Systems GmbH
> Im Oberen Werk 1
> 66386 St. Ingbert
> Tel.: +49 (0) 6894 - 9396 901
> Fax.: +49 (0) 6894 - 9396 851
> Email: vgreimann at key-systems.net
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> Folgen Sie uns bei Twitter oder werden Sie unser Fan bei Facebook:
> www.facebook.com/KeySystems
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> Geschäftsführer: Alexander Siffrin
> Handelsregister Nr.: HR B 18835 - Saarbruecken 
> Umsatzsteuer ID.: DE211006534
>
> Member of the KEYDRIVE GROUP
> www.keydrive.lu 
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>
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> Im Oberen Werk 1
> 66386 St. Ingbert
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> Fax.: +49 (0) 6894 - 9396 851
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