<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Thank you Sarah for starting us on this.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div>With the spirit of the new year, new decade, I would suggest that we issue a statement on our areas of focus for 2020. This will give us a goal and a roadmap on what we want to achieve as Afralo moving forward. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Otherwise the already suggested topics will also do. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 15:51 Dr Eberhard W Lisse <<a href="mailto:el@lisse.na">el@lisse.na</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Michele,<br>
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you are of course right (never mind the issues of scale), but remember,<br>
this is the AFRALO/AfrICAN waffle session, where prepared resolution is<br>
read, approved by whoever could get their trip funded to sit around<br>
there and then consigned to the trash bin.<br>
<br>
el<br>
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On 15/01/2020 13:56, Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote:<br>
> Why would an “end user” care? Why would anyone want to make it more<br>
> complicated and scary to get online? Surely this is an issue for<br>
> industry and not the “end user”?<br>
> <br>
> Most of the DNS abuse issues at the moment are due to providers not<br>
> looking after their own networks / devices or acting on abuse reports.<br>
> <br>
> It’s not a coincidence that we end up having to block entire countries<br>
> from our network on a regular basis<br>
> <br>
> While the goal of Barrack’s proposal might be honourable I don’t think<br>
> it’s particularly practical or realistic<br>
> <br>
> To use an analogy.<br>
> <br>
> You can train someone to check the oil in their car, which in the DNS<br>
> space could be akin to making sure that software was kept up to date<br>
> <br>
> But pushing DNS abuse knowledge would be like expecting me to be able<br>
> to strip my car down<br>
> <br>
> Regards<br>
> <br>
> Michele<br>
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