Re: [gnso-thickwhoispdp-experts] First set of questions from the 'thick' Whois WG

[MICHAEL YOUNG <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marika you can add the following addition from myself, if you find it useful to 
do so.


I don't specifically recall why there would be zero discrepancies in the 2004 
report between registrars Whois databases and the Registry Whois.  I surmise 
that there are zero discrepancies because the report was likely a 
representation of the final verification process undertaken during the 
procedure of migrating Org registrars from the RRP proxy server to the EPP 
server. During this process we required registrars to populate the thick EPP 
Whois data required and we confirmed this action as part of our migration 
steps.  The migration could not be completed by a registrar without 
successfully populating the thick Whois data.

As for rate-limiting on Whois and privacy concerns:  The application for Org 
and subsequent registry agreements for other TLDs included discussion of a 
potential future "bulk Whois" service for parties wishing access to Whois data. 
 The service was never offered to my knowledge and recollection, as Whois data 
being used to enable unsolicited email was becoming a growing concern in the 
industry at that time.  We developed the rate-limiting service in both the 
interest of technical control and mitigation of Whois DDOS attacks and as 
others have said, to reduce/discourage the active data mining of Whois.

Michael Young

On 2013-03-26, at 9:42 AM, Marika Konings <marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> <Responses from Ad-Hoc Expert Panel - 25 March 2013.doc>




Michael Young
CTO, Architelos
michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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