RE: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re: The owners of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Robin,

We *really* DON'T want to go there! Since CIDR, most IP numbers are assigned
via ISPs anyway.  Iff ICANN starts "pulling" net-blocks based on political
whim or content-based behavior, then ICANN is finished, probably forever. It
violates one of the fundimental co-operative rules that the internet is
based on. Right now, IPv4 assignations are creaky enough as it is and IPv6
has its problems. But, that's a move that could bring down the whole house
of cards in a hurry!

That's not just rocking the boat, that's tipping it over...repeatedly!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Miller [mailto:robin@minervan.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 11:12 PM
> To: Sandy Harris
> Cc: wg-review@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re: 
> The owners
> of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sandy Harris wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You can easily make a case that ICANN should do likewise. I 
> find it ludicrous
> > that URDP attempts to deal with trademark issues, basically 
> irrelevant to the
> > functioning of the net and already protected by the legal 
> system, while not
> > containing any requirement to disconnect spammers.
> 
> 
> with this I wholeheartedly agree... spammers have a long 
> history of causing Net
> arterial congestion and ICANN doesn't so much as consider 
> this an important
> issue. But of course I agree with you that they will probably 
> screw up a SPAM
> UDRP too... 
> 
> I think some people might be confused about how ICANN could 
> disconnect a
> spammer, but it would be possible to pull IP numbers from spammers and
> accomplices to spam for net abuse. (of course spammers know 
> how to fake the
> headers though) 
> 
> Not really so much a domain name issue as I would think a IP 
> number issue...
> you might know more than me though.
> 
> all the best, Robin
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