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Measurements in internet governance provide the empirical foundation needed to track infrastructure resilience, address digital divides, enforce policies, and evaluate the impact of digital regulations.</div>
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Even if it is a see- saw game between any two stakeholders, it is worthwhile focusing on the "accuracy" and gleaning from the methods used to ensure the same.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Tue, 19 May 2026 at 08:23, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:00001deb507b73c5-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu">00001deb507b73c5-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">In a typical letter to the GNSO council, the governments want accuracy of domain name registrants data. I don't know if you are following this issue, but accuracy of domain name registrants data
has led to "identification" requirements for domain name registrants in the bastion of democracy the EU (in some jurisdictions). Accuracy for NCSG means contactibility of domain name registrants . We have more or less managed to keep the definition like that
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">In a typical GAC manner, the chair of GAC has sent an email to the GNSO council, saying that this Infermal research that was done (it doesn't matter how much research we do ...) suggested that
accurate domains were 70% less abusive. That was a piece of research. GAC should never invoke it solely to back up its requests. But now the Chair is saying they want a) verification of domain name contact information before adding it to DNS b) they want this
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">In a world that's crumbling left and right I have the least of the expectations from GAC. But we should either write a letter or as your councilors we object to this request.</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I have been criticizing the infermal report through blogs and conversation with others. But it keeps giving! We have a factual concern with the claims in the report:</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The infermal study finding (70% decrease in malicious registrations when validation occurs at account creation or before domain purchase) is presented as if it straightforwardly supports a pre-DNS-resolution
hold for all registrations. Several questions the letter does not address: (1) What registration contexts did the INFERMAL study examine? Consumer/retail registration patterns are unlikely to reflect enterprise, NGO, government, or critical infrastructure
registration behaviour. (2) A 70% reduction in malicious registrations says nothing about the burden imposed on the 100% of legitimate registrants who would face verification delays.</div>
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