Re: [gnso-raa-b] Meeting Invitation / RAA Sub Team B / Monday 08 February 2010 @ 1800 UTC

["Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 Feb 2010, at 13:08, Dave Piscitello wrote:
>> 
> 
> The average user doesn't appreciate antivirus measures... until his PC is
> infected and he loses time, money and data.

Nice analogy, though an AV engine just runs in the background and doesn't 
disrupt your workflow ... 


> Average isn't serving the community well, and (my
> opinion), the community has to take the initiative to improve average or
> face the possibility of government/regulatory intervention.

"Average" is what drives the entire internet.

Expecting some level of security is one thing, so PCI, for example, would be 
fine. Expecting some of the SSAC recommendations to be adopted by all 
registrars is not.

And the governments are more likely to be interested in what registry operators 
are up to - not registrars


> All that's
> needed is for the pain threshold to cross a tipping point. 



That's all well and good, but expecting registrants to jump through hoops to 
update nameservers is not an improvement

If you are managing the DNS for Amazon.com or Microsoft.com then you'd probably 
expect to have to deal with a lot of hurdles to make "simple" changes

However if you are a personal user or SME you won't have time to deal with that 
kind of stuff and will find it to be more trouble than it's worth. 

Regards

Michele

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