Re: [gnso-dow123] Consumer protection survey

[Thomas Keller <tom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In Germany there is a law stating that every owner of a website run for 
commercial means has to point out his identity on it. Any failure to so
or the provision of wrong data can be ground to close down that site. What 
I'm trying to say is that there are more then enough ways to deal with
this issue except whois. Since whois is a global technology it
certainly should not be used to fix local problems.

Best,

tom

Am 27.10.2005 schrieb Steve Metalitz:
>  Task Force members may be interested in a major US consumer survey
> released yesterday under the title, "Do we trust the Internet? Our poll
> finds that Web users are increasingly wary and demanding."   48 percent
> of respondents said knowing who owns a Web site is very important.  This
> was up 16 points from results obtained in 2002, the biggest increase
> recorded for any category in the survey.  When those who said this was
> "somewhat important" are included, the total approaches 80%.  
> Of course, Whois is one way this knowledge can be obtained.  
> 
> See
> http://www.consumerreports.org/main/content/display_report.jsp?WebLogicS
> ession=Q2Dtghg17gPnx9ahACAgVFVvxs24MglklgvzKcZQoC8Rx8hk0QVO|859604093546
> 6213951/169937909/6/7005/7005/7002/7002/7005/-1|7246443674280633685/1699
> 37902/6/7005/7005/7002/7002/7005/-1&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=802035&bmUID=1
> 130425730525 and http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/pdfs/princeton.pdf 
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Gruss,

tom

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