[anti-abuse-wg] Enabling community self-help?

*Suresh Bhaiya,


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> To use a similar - and very loaded - argument - look at gun shops.
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> The majority of people buying guns use them for home defense, hunting,
> target shooting for fun, whatever.
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> There's a tiny minority who will buy the guns to actually go out and
> rob a bank or murder someone or whatever.
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> That still means gun shops have a requirement to verify ID, and a gun
> store owner telling a cop tracing a murder weapon that "I am not the
> document police" would be in for a very interesting experience indeed.
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If we keep this analogy as benchmark (which many would mind). Gun Shop
verified the ID and it was legitimate  by the look of the card or document
but they has no means to trace back the documents/ID to a real person. No
online verification.

So whats the purpose of having such verification. Same is the case with
RIR, isn't it? They check the documents but they don't have the means to
traceback the legitimacy of all the documents and claims the customer is
posing.

Correct me if I'm wrong?

Regards

Aftab A. Siddiqui.
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