RE: [alac] ALERT: What is WHOIS really fpr

[Jean Armour Polly <mom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with both of you and I like the idea of seeing who has 
accessed your whois data, Bret. As long as THAT isn't anonymized. :-)



At 11:00 AM +0000 6/23/06, Roberto Gaetano recently said:
> I fully agree with Bret, the solution is not a plain YES or NO, is 
> rather on how we put a reasonable system in place that takes into 
> account all stakeholders.
>
> Quite a while ago, I believe it was in Tunis, but I might be wrong, 
> I made the example of car licence plates. The file is accessible for 
> law enforcement and any other legal reasons, but data is not 
> publicly available.
>
> Another item I raised in the same meeting was who is benefitting and 
> who is paying. Intellectual Property lawyers would like to use the 
> Whois to check IP violations, but the registrars or registry, 
> depending on the model, has to offer this service for free. It is 
> like if a large multinational corporation would force all national 
> car licence plates registries to offer free access to the 
> corporation to search whether any of the local affiliates own cars.
>
> Regards,
> Roberto GAETANO
> ALAC
> ICANN BoD Liaison
>
>
>
>
> > From: "Bret Fausett" <bfausett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "'John M Levine'" <johnl@xxxxxxxx>,        "'Annette 
> > Muehlberg'" <annette.muehlberg@xxxxxx>
> > CC: "'ALAC'" <alac@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: RE: [alac] ALERT: What is WHOIS really fpr
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:59:10 -0700
> >
> > >  I can tell you from personal experience that WHOIS
> > >  info, even in its current rather imperfect form, is very
> > >  useful when tracking them down.
> >
> > You're right that whois has some practical uses in law enforcement, etc. At
> > the same time, the required public disclosure of identity information also
> > has some privacy implications. At the end of the day, we're still going to
> > have to make a judgment call about whether the benefits of public whois data
> > outweigh the privacy consequences.
> >
> > The proposal I like is the "tiered access" model. The concept is that
> > personal data is unavailable to the general public via simple whois queries
> > but available to law enforcement, ISPs, lawyers, etc. who sign up for
> > special access. Another idea I like is a system that would allow the
> > registrant to review his/her own whois data to see who has accessed the
> > 'second-tiered' information. This seems like a decent compromise, or at
> > least as close to a middle ground as we're likely to see.
> >
> >       Bret
>
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