iCANN - Respect Our Privacy

[Ralph Day <gecko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ICANN –

Regarding the proposed rules governing companies that provide WHOIS 
privacy services (as set forth in the Privacy and Policy Services 
Accreditation Issues Policy document):
I urge you to go even further and ban all privacy and proxy services.  
There is no valid reason for someone to hide their identity.  The 
argument for political speech doesn't make sense. There are many ways to 
speak and remain anonymous.  But if you want to buy real estate you have 
to publicly disclose who you are.  It should be the same with domains.
Everyone deserves the right to privacy but not when they set up shop and 
start inviting the general public in - either in the physical world or 
the virtual world.
Thank you.

Ralph Day