RE: [gnso-whois-wg] clarification of GAC relevance to GNSO WGs

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

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[mailto:owner-gnso-whois-wg@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Krimm
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:02 AM

>In today's call we had a comment from the GAC 
>referring to a listing or enumeration of public 
>interests, or something to that effect, when
>discussing Section 1 of our report (Objective).  

Actually the GAC WHOIS principles provide a list of what the GAC members
thought to be "legitimate uses" of Whois data. It did not say that all
of them were "public interest" uses. Furthermore, the same section which
lists these uses recognizes "the misuse of Whois data" and potential
conflicts with national law. 

The simple fact is that the GAC principles tell us nothing about how to
reconcile those two things. That's our job. 

Furthermore, if you take a careful look at those "legitimate uses" you
can see that about half of them could occur with OPoC-shielding; e.g.,
checking for the availability of a name.