North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:05:25AM -0800, Matthew Black wrote: [snip] > This presupposes that corporations have a more significant claim > to domain names than individuals. Wrong; that kind of policy does -and did when enforced back in the InterNIC days when the generic TLDs were meaningful- no such thing. > Does anybody recall the fiasco > between ETOY.COM and ETOYS.COM? The former was created by an artist > years before the now defunct toy retailer. ETOYS' corporate bullying > took away the artist's longstanding domain claiming it might confuse > consumers. Wrong again; etoy won. I'm sure I'm not alone for having my copy of the toywar soundtrack and share[s]. > That is the real problem. Post-NSF, the failure of a distributed directory naturally lead to the dns & whois being treated as one. In hindsight, any managed list wasn't what was needed, but certainly seemed natual to ma bell. A more dynamic, less-intermediated service *was* needed and the collective we worked around the problem, unfortunately pushing it down into the infrastructure. The thing that rankles me most is that is where it frankly shouldn't *matter*, but there was this great hammer so naturally 'we' could pound the nail... > Phishing problems will not be corrected without multinational [snip] ...reputation clearinghouses, one of the many drums long beaten by the anti-spam and general anti-abuse camp, is the answer. Like the other such drums before it, folks will listen well after it is too late and only after it directly affects them. Cheers, Joe -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE
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