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

[Esther Dyson <edyson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

regress, in that a negative action has not been balanced by positive action.

esther

At 09:53 AM 10/28/2003, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
> At 03:31 PM 10/28/2003 +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> > On 2003-10-28 06:25:49 -0800, Wendy Seltzer 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?
> >
> > I'd only suggest one more change (apologies for the last minute
> > suggestion):
> >
> > > Unfortunately, there has been no progress since February.
> > > Indeed, on the privacy front, there has been regress.  Domain
> > > name registrants are forbidden from using pseudonyms or fuzzy,
> >
> > I'd strike "Indeed, ..., there has been regress" -- that's a fact
> > statement which might be somewhat hard to back up.
>
> It was my view that the enforcement of accuracy is regress, unless you're 
> saying that no names have actually been dropped for "inaccuracy" of 
> registration data.  Even then, registrants have been dissuaded from 
> registering or using domain names by the threats of accuracy enforcement.
>
> Thanks.
> --Wendy
>
> --
> Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
> Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
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