[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] another document that might be of interest

[Rod Rasmussen]

Thank you Andrew, could not have stated this better.

Folks, we have to remember that whois exists for a reason - it wasn’t a whim created to enable spam (which didn’t exist at the time) or enable state surveillance, it was created for the operational realities of trying to coordinate actions and issues between network operators, domain holders, and those responsible for making sure the networks could interconnect properly and domains resolve properly.  That FUNDAMENTAL reason for having a whois database, RDS or whatever you call it has not changed.  The Internet isn’t a single entity, it is millions of entities representing a myriad of network categories and users all working together to create this amazing global unification tool that all of us today are so lucky to enjoy.  Being able to contact responsible parties when something goes wrong from technical issues to abuse to rights infringement to outright crime is a necessary adjunct to all of us hooking up these networks and network identifiers together in a reliably interoperable world.  If we have no tools or information to do this, then the “Balkanization” of the Internet in many ways is a very likely possibility as network operators will logically and likely in concern for their own liability, start to excise portions of the network they cannot trust due to lack of contactabilty, transparency or accountability a non-whois world would have.  I personally will not rest until we remove that possible outcome, at least on the question of providing reliable contact data via an RDS so that these fundamental issues and responsibilities of identifier holders can be rectified by those affected by them.

Cutting through all the rancor, assertions, positions, etc. that we’ve seen on this group, if we could all agree with THIS fundamental concept of why we need an RDS populated with useful data, the sooner we can work on the frankly “side issues” that various legal issues in various parts of the world present as challenges towards making that happen easily.

Best,

Rod

> On Oct 24, 2017, at 12:46 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 03:13:15PM -0400, Greg Shatan wrote:
> 
>> This is a false dichotomy for several reasons.
> 
> [and a bunch of other stuff with which I largely agree].  On top of
> what Greg says, I think it a strange idea that registrants' interests
> are best served by eliminating a tool to increase the reliability and
> utility of domain name registrations.  Apart from (IMO parasitic)
> domain name speculators, the whole point of registering a domain name
> is to function on the Internet.  As I have now said too often to
> count, the Internet is partly novel becase it offers distributed
> operation and management among operators with no necessary prior
> contractual relationship, or even one that is available transitively
> through some other contract.  In order to get that kind of operation,
> certain tools are a _required_ feature.  One of them is that, if you're
> going to operate any infrastructure (and domain names are Internet
> infrastructure), certain details about how to reach you are just going
> to be required.
> 
> We can certainly debate the best way to make that happen, and how much
> of it is necessary.  But I don't think it is ever going to be
> completely optional, and I think anyone who thinks it can be
> completely optional or for that matter not in registrants' interests
> needs to think a little harder about the operational and protocol
> realities of the Internet as it exists now.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> A
> 
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