While we're on the subject...our good friends at Verisign are now using
a business practice that will be only too familiar to list members...see:
http://icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=631&mode=thread&order=0

jon



>-- Original Message --
>Reply-To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
>From: "Dassa" <dassa&#167;dhs.org>
>To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
>Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:17:47 +1100
>Subject: RE: [DNS] Solution to domains renewal furore
>
>
>|> -----Original Message-----
>|> From: Ron Stark [mailto:ronstark&#167;businesspark.com.au] 
>|> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:46 AM
>|> To: 'dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au'
>|> Subject: [DNS] Solution to domains renewal furore
>|> 
>|> 
>|> At the risk of provoking a violent reaction ("Over my dead 
>|> body!" was one such and "What??" another), I'll float the idea again:
>|> 
>|> All of the practices we want to stamp out are centred on domain name
>|> renewals.  We can easily stop it all cold - instantly - simply by
>decreeing
>|> that *only* registrars are permitted to send out renewal notices, and
>then
>|> only to their own registrants.
><snip>
>
>This only deals with the one aspect of such practices which is across
>more than DNS.
>
>Perhaps a better approach would be to strengthen the UCE laws.  This
>would have the same effect.  Unless you can prove a business
>relationship with the consumer it is considered UCE and have penalaties
>for it.  This would eliminate a lot of spam and have the same effect as
>you intend.
>
>I know it would take far more effort to get it introduced wide scale but
>if the DNS industry led the way by incorporating such policies into the
>Code of Practice it would be a start.
>
>Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.
>
>
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