[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Why the thin data is necessary
Volker Greimann
vgreimann at key-systems.net
Wed Jun 7 08:54:20 UTC 2017
It is remarkable how much of the spam that we see on a regular basis
that is tied to the domain lifecycle. Fake renewal notices, SEO offers,
the lot.
Anything that would reduce this is a basis for restricting access
somewhat. I do not really see any harm in such restrictions either.
Best,
Volker
Am 07.06.2017 um 10:27 schrieb jonathan matkowsky:
> There is no basis for restricting ungated access any more so than the
> domain's existence or the string of characters registered.
>
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 at 11:22 Volker Greimann <vgreimann at key-systems.net
> <mailto:vgreimann at key-systems.net>> wrote:
>
> I have no objections against having this data available and
> accessible.
> The question is whether it should be as accessible as it is now or
> whether there could be certain restrictions. A tiered access system as
> has been proposed would solve this beautifully.
>
> In this case, the dates would be on the second tier (the first tier
> being full unhindered access), which would entail some form of
> authentification and bulk access restrictions. Every single one of the
> uses Andrew desribes would remain possible and unproblematic, but the
> data would no longer be in as much danger of being abused as it is
> today.
>
> Best,
>
> Volker
>
>
> Am 06.06.2017 um 22:07 schrieb Michael Peddemors:
> > +1 as well..
> >
> > .. but with so many +1's on having that data publicly accessible, it
> > would be interesting to take a straw poll, to a wider audience
> on that
> > simple question..
> >
> > It would be also nice to see what category the parties in each camp
> > lie? We know that everyone involved in making the internet a
> safer and
> > better place (security companies, law enforcement et al) want it
> > available, and to define 'thin data' as wide as possible, and I can
> > understand that some consideration to privacy be considered so
> that it
> > doesn't go too wide, but not really certain I understand the
> position
> > of those that want it as 'thin' as possible, or non-existant, and/or
> > the parties behind that position and their numbers.
> >
> > And of course the ever present question for both camps, is the
> opinion
> > coming from a place where there are financial motivations (not that
> > necessarily there is anything wrong with that <sic>) that have
> formed
> > the basis of that opinion. (eg, if the money equation was removed,
> > would you still have that opinion, or even be in the conversation?)
> >
> > For all we know, the privacy camp are in very small numbers in this
> > conversation, and while they might hold legitimate positions,
> maybe it
> > isn't enough to affect the directions/positions of ICANN as a group
> > going forward.
> >
> > And IMHO, even if it was 50/50 split, if it came down to two
> camps, eg
> > 'the ones keeping us safe' and 'it affects/risks our pocketbooks', I
> > would err on policies that would aid the former..
> >
> > Don't want 'politics' to affect such important decisions..
> >
> >
> >
> > On 17-06-06 11:22 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On the call today there were arguments being made about why certain
> >> fields should not be publicly accessible. In effect, what we
> are now
> >> arguing about, in talking about what should be considered "thin
> data",
> >> is the definition of the set of data to which unauthenticated
> access
> >> should be permitted. (Let us please not get distracted by what is
> >> actually required by the RAA or anything like that just now,
> since the
> >> outcome of this policy discussion might change that.)
> >>
> >> There were several arguments put forth about whether the
> created on,
> >> updated on, and expiry dates should be included. Similarly, people
> >> discussed whether the domain status values should be included. I
> >> believe they must be.
> >>
> >> The Internet is unlike many other technologies because of its
> radical
> >> decentralization. That is not some sort of political choice, but
> >> instead a fundamental part of the design of the Internet: it's a
> >> network of networks (of networks…) formed by voluntary
> interoperation
> >> among the participants. Participants in the Internet interoperate
> >> without setting up formal contractual arrangements between all the
> >> participating parties. This feature is part of what has made the
> >> Internet so successful compared to other telecommunications
> systems,
> >> because the barrier to entry is really low. But that design
> comes at
> >> a cost.
> >>
> >> The cost is that there's not always a party to speak to, with
> whom one
> >> has a pre-existing relationship. If communications break down
> between
> >> two telephone customers, they know whom to call: the phone company.
> >> The phone company also has contractual (or sometimes treaty)
> >> relationships to other phone companies.
> >>
> >> The Internet doesn't work that way. If you and I are communicating
> >> over the Internet, there is no guarantee of direct contractual
> >> relationships all the way along the transit path: that's what open
> >> peering policies ensure. The way we make this work in fact is by
> >> placing the responsibility for troubleshooting out at the
> edges. And
> >> because of that, when I need to troubleshoot my site I need to have
> >> tools with which to do that.
> >>
> >> In domain-based communications (such as email, IP telephony,
> websites,
> >> money transfer, and thousands of other applications), when I
> encounter
> >> a problem with the communication I need to answer whether the
> problem
> >> is in _my_ network operation, or in the other end. Important
> data to
> >> rule out "the other end" is in the thin RDS data.
> >>
> >> Obviously, the nameserver and DNSSEC information in the RDS
> will allow
> >> me to tell whether what is in the global DNS is what ought to be
> >> there. For instance, if the RDS has one value for the name
> servers,
> >> but the DNS returns something else, there is a problem.
> >>
> >> Less obvious but just as important are the status values. If a
> name
> >> is on Hold or is pendingTransfer or something like that, it can
> tell
> >> me that something is up. A name that doesn't appear in the DNS but
> >> has a full complement of name servers in the RDS, for example,
> might
> >> be on hold; and I can't tell that without seeing the status values.
> >>
> >> In the same way, the dates in the RDS allow a troubleshooter to
> >> understand what might be wrong when things are broken. If a
> name is
> >> set to expire in a day and you're getting a parking page on the
> >> website, you have a clue about what is going on. Most of the
> examples
> >> cited in
> >>
> https://whoapi.com/blog/1582/5-all-time-domain-expirations-in-internets-history/
> >>
> >> were trivial to understand for help desks that could see that a
> name
> >> that should have existed for some time was just hours old,
> because the
> >> created_on date was available. And if you start having trouble and
> >> see a domain was updated about the same time the trouble
> started, you
> >> have a pretty good clue that the problem is most likely at the
> target
> >> domain, and not in your own network.
> >>
> >> As for the question of why the global Internet infrastructure
> needs to
> >> help with this, the answer is that _that's what the
> infrastructure is
> >> for_. We have registrars and registries in order to
> co-ordinate these
> >> assignments and make those assignments available, in support of the
> >> distributed administration and operation of the Internet. If the
> >> infrastructure isn't providing this kind of information in order to
> >> help administrators of various Internet administrators, then it
> isn't
> >> doing its job.
> >>
> >> The Internet is a distributed system. If you want to make
> distributed
> >> systems work, you have to allow the operators to have enough
> >> information to do their jobs independently of one another. So,
> >> regardless of where one lands on whether any of this data is
> personal
> >> data, it makes no difference. If you want the domain name
> system to
> >> continue to work reliably, you have to publish this data.
> >> Centralization and locking the data up for just registrars simply
> >> won't scale.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> A
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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>
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Volker A. Greimann
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