Concerned

[Paul Pliska <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This report speaks many times of balancing various needs, but all of the 
recommendations (excepting those related to internationalization)
seem to favor the needs of law enforcement and others who want to 
identify domain owners, not the needs of people who, for various 
legitimate reasons, to not want to be easily identified.
One important point this report only touched on briefly is that many 
domains are now owned by ordinary individuals, not companies or other 
organizations. It is, I think, patently unreasonable that your average 
Joe who just wants a domain that redirects to his personal blog, cartoon 
fansite or what-have-you, should have to globally publish his full name, 
phone number and physical address.
Some possible ways this could be addressed:

Make private registrations an official part of DNS/WHOIS instead of 
relying on proxies and privacy services. Details of this should address 
not only what information the registrar of a private domain is required 
to collect from the registrant or when and to whom is should be 
released, but also when and to whom it should NOT be released.
Explicitly establish more relaxed rules for domains registered by 
individuals. These might require only a single working contact method 
for example. To prevent abuse, there could be a additional requirements, 
such as that these domains are actually used by an individual, or are 
not primarily used for commercials purposes.
Create a new TLD specifically for individuals, as above. Or even with no 
contact information at all. When consumers need accountability they 
could simply avoid it. (I wouldn't shop at mystore.anon, but I would 
read myblog.anon without hesitation.)