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Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:18:39 -0400
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 07:31:20PM +0000, Naslund, Steve wrote:
I don't see why there should not be a way to know who is publishing data on the Internet.
+1 for this and what follows. Allow me, please, to piggyback on it with a similar thought: With great power, comes great responsibility. There is no difference between someone who runs a global network or a worldwide collection of datacenters, and someone who runs a tiny web server or a single domain, other than scale. Both of them enjoy extraordinary power, power that was difficult to imagine even for people with reliable and accurate crystal balls, a quarter century ago. They both operate a piece of the Internet that we share. And they are both responsible to each other -- whatever that means in context. They have to be accountable, because when people are unaccountable we get spam factories and network hijacking and DoS attacks and all the other myriad crap that chews up enormous amounts of time and money. This responsibility, this accountability isn't for everyone. And that's fine. But anyone who isn't up for it *should not sign up to operate a piece of the Internet*. There are a zillion other ways to participate without becoming an operator. ---rsk
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- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?, (continued)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Brian Kantor (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Mark Andrews (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Rubens Kuhl (Apr 20)
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- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Lyndon Nerenberg (Apr 21)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Lyndon Nerenberg (Apr 21)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Mark Andrews (Apr 21)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Lyndon Nerenberg (Apr 21)
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- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? valdis . kletnieks (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Rich Kulawiec (Apr 25)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? valdis . kletnieks (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Scott Schmit (Apr 24)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? bzs (Apr 24)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Rich Kulawiec (Apr 25)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Anne P. Mitchell Esq. (Apr 25)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Rob McEwen (Apr 25)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Stephen Satchell (Apr 25)
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