Registry restrictions
Stephane Bortzmeyer
bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Tue May 6 14:58:28 CEST 2008
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:42:26PM +0100,
Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org> wrote
a message of 19 lines which said:
> Which I think leads to a useful principle. We can "safely" leave to
> registries any action, the failure to do which will impact only that
> registry or its customers. They have full permission to shoot themselves
> in the foot. We should embed in the protocol any safety measure or
> restriction which, if not followed, allows a registry to shoot other
> registries or their customers in the foot.
Nice on paper but not realistic. We do not prevent (in the DNS
standard) ".cm" for adding a wildcard which allow them to typosquatt
".com". Why should we prevent them from registering some IDN domain
names?
The whole discussion seems to imply that the IETF is a sort of
Internet police in charge of protecting the poor users against
unspecified dangers. This directly leads to a dangerous hubris (and it
is also a direct violation of the charter).
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