Steve,

I’m comfortable with your final sentence in this paragraph. I have no problem with “content” as long as we’re clear on how we are defining it. Time for glossary additions? Content = X. SME = Y. :)

Don

From: <Metalitz>, Steven Metalitz <met@msk.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 10:19 AM
To: Don Blumenthal <dblumenthal@pir.org>, Michele Blacknight <michele@blacknight.com>, PPSAI <gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg@icann.org>
Subject: RE: What is content and what isn't

 

The first category (which happens to be the one that Phil Corwin wants to exclude from disclosure requirements, but that’s a different thread) requires looking at the domain name itself.  The second category requires looking at the resource (such as but not necessarily limited to a website) associated with the domain name.  Websites engaged in counterfeiting and piracy fall in the second category; so do websites used for distribution of malware.  If you wish, you can call one of these content and the other something else, but they share the important characteristic that they require looking beyond the domain name to see the abuse.