[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Who is in charge? (was Re: Why the thin data is necessary)]

[Alan Greenberg]

Chuck, I really think it is bad choice to call the set of elements 
that can be accesses without restriction "thin". Thin is an accepted 
and understood term in relation to Whois and is the set of data 
elements maintained (and displayed) by the .com, net and jobs 
registries. It is well documented. See 
https://whois.icann.org/en/what-are-thick-and-thin-entries, 
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/thick-whois-2016-06-27-en and 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS#Thin_and_thick_lookups.

To use this same term to define a potentially different set of 
elements will only lead to confusion. It certainly did for me on this 
week's call!

No matter what disclaimers we put in any document saying we are using 
the term "thin Whois elements" to refer to a different group than is 
currently used in the existing thin Whois displays many people will 
take it differently.

Can we please use some other expression: ungated elements; 
freebee-Whois; or Whifflefarbs. But not one that already has a 
different meaning!

Alan



At 08/06/2017 04:59 PM, Gomes, Chuck via gnso-rds-pdp-wg wrote:
>Like much of the discussion over the last 24 hours +, I think we are 
>getting ahead of ourselves. If and when we propose gated access for 
>any (thick) data elements, we will consider the EWG recommendation 
>of some form of accreditation for those who would be granted access 
>to those elements.  In the meantime, I suggest that we focus on the 
>main topic of the week (and the poll), which is what elements should 
>be defined as thin.  Contributions to help us reach conclusion on 
>that are most welcome and I sincerely thank those of you already but 
>some very good comments in that regard.
>
>Chuck
>
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>Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Who is in charge? (was Re: Why 
>the thin data is necessary)]
>
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:55:19AM -0400, Stephanie Perrin wrote:
> > These are excellent questions.  I would add an additional one:  why
> > are private cybercrime investigators not accredited?  How can the
> > global public trust them, or perhaps why?
>
>The above question implies a deep misunderstanding of the nature of 
>the Internet.
>
>As Phill Hallam-Baker[1] said once, "On the Internet, you are so not 
>in charge for every value of 'you'."  The reason that Internet 
>private cybercrime investigators are not accredited is the same 
>reason that Internet policy people are not accredited, Internet 
>technical contributors are not accredited, Internet e-commerce site 
>operators are not accredited, and Internet private fans of dressing 
>up as furry creatures are not accredited.  In a network of networks, 
>there is no centre of control because there is _no centre_.  Since 
>there is no centre of control on the Internet, accreditation in the 
>generic sense above is completely meaningless.
>
>The way things on the Internet work is _voluntary_ interconnection, 
>which means that you're a "private cybercrime investigator" if 
>people who have real legal authority in real legal jurisdictions 
>decide to rely on and work with your investigations.  You're an ISP 
>if people decide to use your service provisioning to connect to the Internet.
>And so on.
>
>The idea that there is anyone in a position to accredit someone else 
>for a generic Internet job completely misses the way the Internet 
>actually functions.  ICANN today can accredit registrars and 
>registries (and therefore make policies about RDS) because people 
>agree to let ICANN do this, because it's doing it now and it's hard 
>to change that.  But if ICANN proves to be too useless for the rest 
>of the Internet (because, to take an imaginary case, the community 
>around ICANN thinks it is Boss of da Internetz and so can make rules 
>that break operational reality without any apparent operational 
>benefit), then its role in IANA registries will simply be usurped by 
>others, and people will ignore the ICANN registrars and registries 
>and everything like that.  I certainly hope we never get there, 
>because it would be really painful and bad for the Internet.  But it 
>is certainly possible.  ICANN has no power independent of the 
>agreement of everyone to use the ICANN policies for the IANA
>  DNS root.  Ask MySpace or the authors of Gopher whether there are 
> any permanent favourites on the Internet.
>
>Best regards,
>
>A
>
>[1] of all people
>
>--
>Andrew Sullivan
>ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
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