Re: [gnso-rap-dt] RAPWG - Definitions

[Roland Perry <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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<1422E1A20DD46D40A577DFE39B44858574DE55EF73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.local>, 
at 16:30:35 on Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Richard Tindal 
<Richard.Tindal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> .  I think it?s important we not pre-label things or start with the 
> premise that something is an abuse unless proven otherwise.  For 
> example,
This is a draft document, and it's therefore entirely normal, and 
understood, to phrase it in the way it has been.
What we could have, perhaps, is section for activities that we have 
decided aren't abuses, so people can see that we didn't forget them, or 
fail to consider them.
We would then have three classes of activity:

Abuse in scope
Abuse out of scope
Not abuse

(And for the avoidance of doubt, I would take it as an action point that 
someone, somewhere, should then look at the second category and decide 
how to bring it into some other organisation's or WG's scope.
> I don?t think ?automated tools to register bulk domains? is an abuse,  
> but my mind is open to be persuaded otherwise
If it's tool that's scanning the "whois" database for currently 
unregistered typo-squatting opportunities, then if the latter is an 
abuse (I happen to think it is) then so is the tool.
There's another aspect, however, which is the swamping (sniping) of 
sunrise periods [1] by people with "bigger guns". That might be 
considered legitimate in an environment of "all is fair in love and 
war", but it does squeeze out the 'amateurs' who might be wanting to 
register just one domain, and don't realise they would have to do this 
through an intermediary with the necessary fire-power. To use an 
analogy, I think eBay would *not* be a better place if the only way to 
win an auction was to use an automated sniping tool (but I can see that 
others might have a different view).
[1] Either seriously big sunrises when new tlds are launched, or smaller 
ones when a batch of expired names is thrown back into the pool.
--
Roland Perry