RE: [gnso-whois-wg] A few questions

["Milton L Mueller" <mueller@xxxxxxx>]

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From: owner-gnso-whois-wg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-whois-wg@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Ross Rader

>Cost was never an issue until the IP community 
>went completely overboard with this latest 
>round of demands. ...The registrar community 
>didn't propose the reveal function 
>this was completely a byproduct of 
>the IP community and this working group.

True, but remember that for the vast majority of legitimate purposes, an 
OPOC'ed Whois record will suffice. 

When private parties need to go to the "reveal" stage, they are making the 
registrar do manual work for private purposes. There needs to be a payment for 
that extra work. This is justified both by its rationing function (to avoid 
unnecessary use) and by its function of compensating the registrars. 

Odd, no one suggests that the IPR lawyers who issue these demands for 
information should not get paid for their work. 

But hey, I could be convinced to support elimination of all registrar charges 
for processing these requests, if the trademark lawyers all agree to offer 
their services indiscriminately to any comer without any pay. 

That would be insane, but it least it would be a fairer type of insanity. 


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