[At-Large] Definition of registration abuse

[Karl Auerbach]

Derek Smythe wrote:

> It does not take a brain surgeon to recognize a scam, just some 
> experience in the understanding of the scam.

Then it ought not to be hard to establish a procedure in which the facts 
and context of the accused scam is presented to an independent and 
disinterested third party, one who is familiar with the nature of these 
things, to review the situation.


> Talk is cheap, but the victims to these are real.

Accusations are even cheaper.  And in many cases it is the one being 
accused who is the victim.

Who is the victim when a company uses takedown-upon-accusation to shut 
down a website that discloses the ill acts of that company?  Who is the 
victim when the website of a labor union at a company is taken down upon 
accusation by the company that its trademark is being violated?

I had hoped that society had passed the shoot-now-and-ask-question-later 
stage.

There is a deeper aspect to this - which is that the internet has been 
lacking a protocol layer, one slightly above IP.  It would be the 
mandatory identification and authentication layer.  IPsec is there, but 
few use it even for protection much less for mutual identification and 
authentication.

		--karl--