Dear John,

thanks for your kind response. Let me opine on each your sentences in turn:

On 06/05/2020 19:58, John McCormac wrote:

GAC, from this statement, assumes that all people will act in a uniform and law-abiding manner.

I am not sure I catch this assumption. Let's see:

There are multiple jurisdictions involved.

Yes absolutely - and some democratic and some non democratic countries too.

There are people who, with good reason, wish to obscure their details from hostile governments and other bad actors.

And for this there are a multitude of anonymisation services available, aren't there?

There are people who are registering domain names for criminal purposes.

And this needs to be addressed now.

There are registrars who knowingly facilitate iffy activity.

What is the community doing about shutting these down?

The problem isn't the domain name industry living in a bubble. It is the GAC assumption that the real world is perfect that is the problem.

Quite the contrary, my opinion is that if the world was indeed a perfect world, we would probably not even need any kind of registration directory service. But the world is not perfect and trust rests, at least partly, on identity.
Kindest regards,

Olivier