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

["Sebastian Ricciardi" <sricciardi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Going back again to the first discussions about this issue:

Display of private information in Public records:

- Is against the law in many countries.
- Would not help law enforcement agencies to track down the bad guys,
because registrants will fake their information.
- Could be bad news even to those user who will never be a registrant: If we
allow users basic rights to be exchanged for technical requirements, we´re
all doomed.

So from my perspective, it would be reasonable solution to require more
information as the access to that info is more restrictive. 

The idea of having a proxy or contact point seems pretty good also.


-----Mensaje original-----
De: owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx] En nombre de John L
Enviado el: Lunes, 27 de Noviembre de 2006 12:19 a.m.
Para: Wendy Seltzer
CC: alac@xxxxxxxxx
Asunto: Re: [alac] Call for constituency statements (from:
jordyn.buchanan@xxxxxxxxx)

> 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
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.

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