[AusNOG] ICANN to bring an end to TLD privacy?

[Mark Foster]

On 29/06/2015 1:32 p.m., Mark ZZZ Smith wrote:
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> *From:* Geordie Guy <elomis at gmail.com>
> *To:* Mark ZZZ Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au>; Brad Peczka 
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> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] ICANN to bring an end to TLD privacy?
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> This is perpetuating the "nothing to hide" myth. Privacy is not about 
> being protected from any particular form of harassment such as spam, 
> it's about the details of the registration being nobody's goddamn 
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> / I think it is when you're registering a globally unique and *public* 
> place holder / identifier using a *public* resource.
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Badly quoted / formatted response aside, Mark has it here.

Early in my career I worked heldpesk and 'abuse@' for a 'free' ISP. The 
operations of that ISP were funded by interconnect revenues and the 
bottom line was that if you could get online once (borrow a dialup, or 
use a library etc), you could sign up for an internet account that would 
work immediately, with no validation of the details supplied as part of 
the sign-up process.

You can imagine how much abuse the service saw, when people realised 
there was essentially no accountability for your actions when you could 
be fully anonymised (at least, until the account was reviewed for 
obvious anonymised user-data or reported for abusive behavior, and the 
mighty whack-a-mole act began).

Having spent a lot of my career (then, and since) dealing with abuse 
originating from parts of the Internet which don't care to be 
accountable (through anonymised domain name registrations, ISP's too 
large to be able to cope with the number of complaints they get so they 
ignore them entirely, parts of the world where you know that a complaint 
from a small nation in the south pacific aren't worth the time it takes 
to read them, etc) I don't believe that anonymous domain name 
registrations are necessary.

Mark.
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