RE: [gnso-whois-wg] Why OPoC Must have Relationship w/ Registrar/ICANN not just Registrant not just Registrant not just Registrant not just Registrant

["Scoville, Adam" <ascoville@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think it's the IP and business community that is asking you to
implement the OPoC system.  We're just pointing out that if the system
is going to be premised on the OPoC performing its job, there have to be
enforceable obligations.  To say again, we're willing to work with those
who want the OPoC system, to try and address these issues.  But I think
enforceability of a reasonably robust set of responsibilities is the
'price of admission' so to speak, in order to protect consumers and
businesses. As Rob Flaim from the FBI put it in San Juan, "solving a
disaster by creating a catastrophe is not the solution at this point."

 

If, with that in mind, OPoC no longer seems manageable to you, then
maybe we should look for, in Tim Ruiz's words of a few weeks ago, "a
paradigm that better fits the reality of today's privacy issues and
needs for access. It should also be done in narrower more manageable
increments that will have a better chance of success within a reasonable
time period."

 

Best,

- Adam

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Rader [mailto:ross@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 11:13 AM
To: Scoville, Adam
Cc: gnso-whois-wg@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [gnso-whois-wg] Why OPoC Must have Relationship w/
Registrar/ICANN not just Registrant not just Registrant not just
Registrant not just Registrant

 

Scoville, Adam wrote:

> Currently (accuracy issues aside), Whois provides the real contact 

> information for the registrant,

 

...but accuracy issues are at the heart of the problem. One can't assume


perfect accuracy because this is where the bad actors hide. This is 

where they will continue hide. In the meantime, we are being asked to 

implement a massively burdensome accreditation/acknowledgement process 

in order to deal with the problem - which will fail as soon as bad 

contact data is introduced into the mix. So why do it? This makes no
sense.

 

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Regards,

 

Ross Rader

Director, Retail Services

Tucows Inc.

 

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