[anti-abuse-wg] @EXT: RE: working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

Hi Volker

On 16/01/2020 15:03, Volker Greimann wrote:
> isn't making the world (and the internet) first and foremost a job of
> law enforcement agencies like the police and Europol?

Law enforcement's job primarily is arresting criminals. And yes they do
prevention. But you can't stop locking your door or walk by fight just
ignoring it, because it's LEA's job.

This is even more true on the internet, where CERT's have long been
working together fighting cybercrime etc.

While there obviously is an appeal to the notion of "The best problems
are some one else's problem" my believe is we don't want to have an
internet or a world, for that matter, where this is how things run. The
internet is a bottom up thing, it is so cool because people follow
protocols, that are not law.

There was a time whn this wasn't a given: During the "Browser wars"
different producer leveraged ambiguities in the HTML standard, and the
end result was horrible.

We don't want this. If we delegate the problem, we've already lost.

Best
Serge



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