WHOIS

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear GNSO Constituency Representatives:

Some time ago during the last public comment cycle I
forwarded a brief proposal to the WHOIS Task Force
entitled "The Natural Persons Proposal".  As this
proposal, like most all public comments tendered, was
routinely ignored by TF members, I am once more
putting the proposal forth for consideration --
perhaps this time someone will actually read the
public comments.

The proposal stated:

"... a consensus has emerged that natural persons who
use their domains exclusively for non-commercial
activity have the right to and the expectation of
privacy with respect to the display of their contact
details within the WHOIS.

This proposal posits only one change to current WHOIS
policy; during the registration process, registrants
will declare that they are either:

A. Natural persons who will use their domains
exclusively for non-commercial activity; or,
B. Another type of registrant.

Those that affirm as type (A) registrants will not
have their postal address listed in the WHOIS
(currently required under section 3.3.1.6 of the
Registry-Registrar Accreditation Agreement), and
neither will they be required to list the postal
address, e-mail address, voice telephone number, and
(where available) fax number of the administrative
contact (currently required under section 3.3.1.8).

In the event that a registrant who has affirmed under
(A) engages in commercial activity, this proposal is
supplemented by the recommendation tendered by the
WHOIS Task Force chair that proposed:

"a mechanism that would allow Whois users to request
access to the removed data elements if the reason the
information was removed was no longer valid, or if the
domain was being used illegally or to harm the
security or stability of other Internet resources. A
third party would evaluate the request, and allow the
release of the data if the party making the request 
proved that one of these conditions had been met."

I am sending this proposal yet again in the hope that
someone on the Council is actually reading these
comments.  If you are a Council member that has read
this note, please confirm such by sending an email to
dannyyounger[at]yahoo.com.

Thank you for your consideration,

Danny Younger





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