On 5 Jun 2017, at 10:03 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: In message <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, John Curran <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: ... Also, it is worth noting that nothing prevents you from hosting such a forum
I think that doing so, as an individual, wouldn't carry even nearly the same weight as if it were reachable directly via the ARIN web site. Ronald- Therein lies the rub - note that I did not reply to your earlier assertion that: “ARIN would have blanket and absolute protection from legal liability for anything that anyone outside of ARIN might post to any such hypothetical blog, under the unambiguous and courtroom-tested provisions of 47 USC 230(c)(1).”, as I try to avoid unnecessary legal debates on the public policy mailing list… However, your assertion is incorrect, due to the very reason you state above – ARIN would be directly hosting and facilitating peoples access to the site and thus would find it difficult to assert lack of awareness of the consequences of its use. As a trade association, ARIN must take particular care in what activities it facilities, and furthermore it is important to realize that some aspects of CDA 230 liability protection has been successfully challenged in recent court cases and thus it should not be considered the immutable and unambiguous shield that you claim it to be... (Note that I touched upon these same developments in my recent February 2017 NANOG 69 presentation on US government matters - <https://www.nanog.org/meetings/abstract?id=3061>) If you believe that such a forum would be valuable, you are free to host it and the network operator community is likely to make use of it to the extent that it proves beneficial to their activities. Thanks! /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN
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