ICANN is currently considering [pdf] new rules that will affect Privacy & Proxy services. Opponents claim this to be yet another effort by big business to bypass due process, as ICANN is being lobbied to make private registrations unlawful for "commercial" use. As it has been argued effectively in the courts that any website with advertisements is commercial in nature, opponents say this can strip private registrations from any personal website or blog that funds itself by ads. Proponents of new rule complain that P/P services are too often slow to respond, to respond at all, and determining the proper entity for legal action is too difficult. Proponents ask that personally identifiable information be disclosed upon written demand to ICANN, without a court order required, with only ICANN ostensibly determining if the written demand is correct, lawful for all parties, and suitable grounds for bypassing due process in the domain holder's country.
Namecheap.com, the EFF, and Fight For The Future currently have a campaign going to call and write into ICANN before the deadline for public comments, on July 7, 2015. Of course, you can call them directly (busy signal all day) at their LA offices - +1-310-301-5800 to make a comment, or email them directly at comments-ppsai-initial-05may15@icann.org and policy-staff@icann.org
ICANN is currently only seeking comment, and is unable to come to a consensus on this issue yet. Assuming ICANN does eliminate P/P for everyone, we are left with the Distortion part of Avoid-Distort-Block-Break.
How would Soylentils respond to the lack of private registrations?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @12:15PM
port 53 is a abomination.
p2p nameing solution dearly needed.
just go onion :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @12:53PM
no no no!
you can just willy-nilly start making meaningfull packets with an intelligent program.
think of all the mansions, ferraris and yachts that can't be built and sold.
people need to make a living with their serverfarms already.
just think what would happen if such a slew of code would exist and were installed on each internet connected computing device, autonomous managing their huamn-readable naming all by themselfs?
all the lost "jobs" sheesh! the economy would go down the crappers.
furthermore the internet already is killing the circuit-switched landline network and you have to think about at least keeping some of the legacy hierarchical thinking in the new packet-switched network ...
kids these days ... sheesh ... no respect.