Research-y

Here's a research-y topic:

How will the various expansions of the network space affect spam and
related? Can we put more flesh on these bones than "a lot!"

1. IPv6 address space expansion
2. 1000+ new TLDs
3. IDN (Int'l'ized domain names, Chinese, Arabic, etc)
4. Just growth in general, any correlation worth reporting
   or extrapolating?
5. Expansion of mobile etc (smartphones, tablets.) Have there
   been any smartphone botnets (yet)?
6. Evolution of internet governance, for example would entry
   of the ITU/WCIT as a significant governance/regulatory body
   affect current or likely anti-spam measures? Jurisdiction?

One issue I see is that every govt'l or pseudo-govt'l body which steps
up to the plate imagines in their mind's eye that they merely need to
identify what they don't want (e.g., their culture's definition of
"porn"), say it must not be possible -- think of the children!, and
that makes it so.

I often suggest back that humanity would be better served if they
would just outlaw cancer.

But expansion and diffusion of internet governance loci (since no
one's in charge of the internet everyone's in charge) is growing
rapidly as lawmakers around the world discover its power. Even the
Pope tweets!

Seems like a big subject, yet important enough to be able to say some
general words on each topic as a group.


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