Re: [alac] Call for constituency statements (from: jordyn.buchanan@gmail.com)

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John L ha scritto:
> > the interest of the individual registrant.
>
>
> Seems to me that first we need to figure out who our constituents are.  
> I think they're individual Internet users, the vast majority of whom 
> have not registered a domain and never will.
>
>  From the point of view of the non-registrant majority, the more info 
> WHOIS contains, the better.

I think this is an unproven assumption. Non-registrant users are not 
just advantaged by spammers being identified more quickly thanks to 
whois information (but how many spammers provide real data in whois?), 
but also disadvantaged by websites being taken down thanks to harassment 
and cease and desist letters to their owners.

> ISPs and law enforcement can and do use it, 

Since when are ISPs entitled to enforce laws?
Perhaps this is due to a different social culture, but I am as scared by 
"neighbourhood watches" - be them in the real or in the online world - 
than I am by spamming and phishing.
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