[NCAP-Discuss] Enhanced Controlled Interruption and Predictability

[rubensk at nic.br]

> On 24 Feb 2022, at 12:46, Tom Barrett via NCAP-Discuss <ncap-discuss at icann.org> wrote:
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> The Board's overarching goal should be to prevent or minimize consumer harm in approving new delegations.
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> I don't think it is relevant whether potential collisions are accidental or deliberate.  In either case, whether the potential collisions become actual collisions is entirely under ICANN's control and the Board will still want to be able to understand the consumer harm that would be caused with a new delegation.
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> This simply may not align with giving predictability to new gtld applicants.
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> Since assessing consumer harm is beyond the remit of the NCAP's current study, I suspect that they will return to SSAC and ask for another study.

Minimizing harm is a worthy goal, but whether potential collisions are accidental or deliberate needs to be taken into account. Otherwise, ICANN is opening a loophole that anyone wanting a string just needs to cause enough collisions so that string is not delegated in the DNS, while the same perpetrator uses it at a competing namespace.

We don't tell people to not drive on the streets because of DUI drivers; we arrest and prosecute such drivers, allowing law-abiding citizens to drive as safely as possible.


Rubens

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