Re: [alac] Call for constituency statements (from: jordyn.buchanan@gmail.com)

[John L <johnl@xxxxxxxx>]

> the interest of the individual registrant.

Seems to me that first we need to figure out who our constituents are.  I 
think they're individual Internet users, the vast majority of whom have 
not registered a domain and never will.

> From the point of view of the non-registrant majority, the more info WHOIS 
contains, the better.  ISPs and law enforcement can and do use it, even in 
its current cruddy form, to track down the bad guys sending vast amounts 
of phish, spam, etc., most of which keys on a link to an email address or 
URL containing a domain in order to collect the response from the victim.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor
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