RE: Affects of the balkanization of mail blacklisting

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APNIC, ARIN, and RIPE are now *the* members of the Address Supporting
Organization (ASO) of the ICANN. Just as, IETF is now a part of the Protocol
Supporting Organization (PSO).

This could turn into a globally over-arching problem. MAPs has a large user
base that is international in scope. It also appears to be cross-domain
(addresses AND names). However, it would appear to be a largely ASO issue,
since it directly effects IP address block policies (YMMV).

If one wants to make MAPS-like functionality a part of the Internet, at
large, then that's where one might go. Clarify your thoughts, write them
into a proposal and bring it to either the IETF, the ASO, or both.
Understand that much of the process is still being defined and there is a
serious lack of participation from those that should participate. But, it
may still be your best approach.

I work in the ICANN/DNSO and have no serious connections in the ICANN/ASO
and only slight contact in the ICANN/PSO.

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If one wants to make MAPS-like functionality a part of the Internet, at
large, then that's where one might go. Clarify your thoughts, write them
into a proposal and bring it to either the IETF, the ASO, or both.

This will never happen. There can never be an AUP involved in the allocation
of addresses. Even the simple matter of "is this address block being used for
virtual web hosting and if so have all alternatives been explored?" was a huge
political headache. Questions like "do other people actually want to receive
the traffic you want to send them?" would be utterly unanswerable (and for that
matter, unaskable) at the ICANN/ASO/IETF level.