Re: [alac] Proposed ALAC restatement on WHOIS (draft2)

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd basically stick to Wendy's text.  Overloading this with even
more topics probably won't make it more understandable.

On 2003-10-28 17:04:48 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> From: Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: alac@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:04:48 +0100
> Subject: Re: [alac] Proposed ALAC restatement on WHOIS (draft2)
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> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 06:25:49 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> >I've revised this to account for comments from Ken and Thomas (the only 
> >comments I've heard since posting last Thursday).  If committee members 
> >agree, can we post this tomorrow, when the WHOIS discussions will be taking 
> >place in Carthage?
> 
> Sure. I really like this document. Only suggestion (you know, it's my pet
> point):
> 
> >One simple solution, requiring no new infrastructure, would be to make all
> >data fields in WHOIS optional, allowing domain name registrants themselves
> >to make the choice between contactability and privacy.  A more complete
> >solution would also permit registrants to give accurate information to their
> >registrars without putting that into the generally-accessible WHOIS (the
> >online equivalent of an unlisted telephone number).
> 
> I would then add something like "By the way, a specific written consent of
> the individual registrant to the publication of his/her personal data is
> required under the privacy legislations of many countries; any practically
> useful WHOIS system should implement simple ways for registrants to give or
> deny such consent."
> 
> I'd also like to add somewhere the other point I made this morning when
> discussing with the non-commercials - the fact that it is pointless to
> require more accuracy when users often don't have a simple system to access
> and update their data. Often you buy your domain name through a reseller of
> a reseller of a registrar, then you move the name, or you lose the e-mail
> address you used for registration, or whatever... and you're not able to
> access and update your data any more. And this gets more difficult once you
> have domains in 3-4 different TLDs. Not sure about the practical solution,
> but at least we could raise the problem. (But I'd like to release this
> tomorrow morning, so if we can't do it, it's fine).
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