RE: [gnso-rap-dt] revised WHOIS note

[Paul Stahura <Paul.Stahura@xxxxxxxx>]

I vote for dismissing WHOIS - didn't know there was a voting going on till I 
saw message below.

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From: owner-gnso-rap-dt@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-rap-dt@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Beau Brendler
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:49 PM
To: Roland Perry
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Subject: Re: [gnso-rap-dt] revised WHOIS note


Agree with Roland, would vote against dismissing WHOIS outright, sorry
to have missed vote
Beau Brendler

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On 23/07/2009, at 3:35 PM, Roland Perry
<roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> In message <EF540DBF36AD494ABA9956846D1C0968@xxxxxxxxxxx>, at
> 15:00:20 on Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Greg Aaron <gaaron@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>> So, I need to know if anyone would like to switch their vote.  If
>> so please
>> indicate explicitly on the list by 22:00 UTC tomorrow so that the
>> tally can
>> be accurately recorded in the note to Council.  Rod, Mike, and
>> Roland, can
>> you confirm your positions -- do you agree with a and b as per
>> http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-rap-dt/msg00255.html ?  If not,
>> please
>> describe.
>
> There's only a short time to go (could we have longer than this in
> future, we could easily be travelling), and I wasn't on the call.
>
> I can't agree to dismiss WHOIS problems because a registration that
> has demonstrably false WHOIS (eg "Mickey Mouse, Disneyland") must be
> indicative of some kind of abuse. It's also the case that some tlds
> have geographic qualifications (eg "Resident in country X") and a
> WHOIS indicating a different country would have to raise questions.
> --
> Roland Perry