[At-Large] R: FW: Withdraw the gun database

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 22 January 2013 17:27, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:


THIS:


> There are already a mountain of accuracy obligations imposed by ICANN
> onto registrants - with the penalty being loss of a domain name, not to
> mention the UDRP and rapid takedown, or the "don't be bad' provisions in
> most registrar agreements - there is no need to add more.
>

does not match with THIS:

Yet we saw what can happen when they are not present in the registerfly
> situation when ICANN sat on its hands and let everything crumble.


Indeed, you make well the case that the status quo does not provide
sufficient penalty (or for that matter, any liability beyond loss of the
domain name).

If you're going to stack up the exposure on searchers, there ought to be at
least as much liability on registrants that fake the search responses.

OTOH, if you want to leave the existing lax penalties on registrants, fine,
but then lay off the exposure demanded from searchers.

- Evan

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