Re: [gnso-rap-dt] revised WHOIS note

[Roland Perry <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message 
<20090722090027.9c1b16d3983f34082b49b9baf8cec04a.3f7d9445ab.wbe@xxxxxxxxx
ureserver.net>, at 09:00:27 on Wed, 22 Jul 2009, James M. Bladel 
<jbladel@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> Too often, ICANN working groups will devolve into "dueling anecdotes,"
> and the conversations hit an impasse.  Until we have something to better
> inform our deliberations, I think we should avoid any type of deep-dive
> into the subject.
I think what you are trying to say is that the conversation often 
doesn't converge. What we should all strive to do is learn about the 
world from different perspectives.
Of course there is much being done in some areas of abuse prevention by 
registrars. I also see at first hand a great reluctance to deal with 
individual "traditional" criminal activity (eg fraud and harassment, not 
simply domain hijacking), on the grounds that it's the courts/police job 
to do that. Which in one sense is true, but for a more level playing 
field it would help if the bad guys couldn't be anonymous quite so 
easily.
I'd like to see us talking more about real-world issues where domain 
names are a facilitator, rather than assuming that the main problem is 
squabbles over trademarks.
--
Roland Perry