[ietf-dkim] DKIM adoption

[John R. Levine]

> You half-joke, but one of the arguments we presented to the FTC back in 2003 
> or so regarding spam was that we had an opportunity to regulate issuance of 
> domain names. If not regulate, then at least insist on an identifiable legal 
> entity being required to register a domain.

Without going into the rococo nightmare that is ICANN politics, forget it. 
Beyond the fact that ICANN has no interest in making it harder to register 
domains (other than perhaps via incremental price increases), they only 
set the rules for generic TLDs, three letters and longer, not two-letter 
country code TLDs.

The Joint Project Agreement with the US government isn't going away any 
time soon, and the US government has always been in favor of more 
accountability, e.g., the .US domain forbids proxy registrations, but it's 
political problem due to privacy laws in the EU and Canada protecting 
domains that at least claim to be registered by individuals.

R's,
John