Re: [Pearg] Proposed virtual interim on IP address privacy

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Hiya,

On 17/11/2020 07:47, Eliot Lear wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 16 Nov 2020, at 21:16, Stephen Farrell
>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> 
>> One topic I'd like to see covered is: when is one person's use-case
>> another person's abuse-case? ISTM the exact same behaviour can be
>> judged as fine or abusive depending on the circumstances and actors
>> involved. I think it'd be good to try be more explicitly aware of
>> that and to maybe consider if there's a preponderance of evidence
>> for one view or the other in some cases.
> 
> Another way of putting this is that there are legitimate reasons to
> want to know who is it that is DOSing me, and who do I contact?

So yes, to the extent that the text above presents a use-case
without ack'ing that there could be related abuse-case(s),
e.g., there are probably many illegitimate reasons to want to
know who is it that is using an address.

Cheers,
S.


> Early work on take downs and Pharma spam has shown that sometimes
> time is of the essence in order to kill economic incentives for poor
> behavior.  So what does this mean in terms of privacy?  I can talk a
> little about this, but the experts are really in Cambridge and at
> UCSD.
> 
> Eliot
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