[anti-abuse-wg] Draft Anti-Abuse WG Agenda - RIPE 66

  On 03/06/13 11:48, Brian Nisbet wrote:
> Ronald,
> Ronald F. Guilmette wrote the following on 05/03/2013 20:36:
>> In message <5135CE73.9030500 at heanet.ie>,
>> Brian Nisbet <brian.nisbet at heanet.ie> wrote:
>>
>>> This is the draft agenda for the RIPE 66 meeting...
>>
>> No agenda item about defining (or refining the definition of) "abuse"?
>
> Nope.
>
>> I'd like to just reiterate my view that all other activities of this WG
>> will be utterly fruitless until such time as a reasonable, rational, and
>> generally accepted definition of "abuse" is in hand.
>
> I genuinely don't think it will be useful to spend time on this. I 
> think an attempt to get a consensual definition of abuse would take 
> the whole of the session in Dublin and every session thereafter and 
> after all that time, I still don't think we would have got anywhere. 
> If the rest of the WG disagrees with me, then we can raise it, but if 
> n = the number of people in the WG, I fear we would have n + 1 
> definitions.
>


I am pretty sure it will take until the end of the world to agree on a 
definition. Perhaps even longer.