Re: Thick vs.thin (was: [ga] Casting stones)

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:46:46AM +0200,
 Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> wrote 
 a message of 30 lines which said:

> With the thick model (when implemented from the beginning of a TLD), 
> the registry can go jurisdiction shopping in order to be able to  
> implement whatever privacy policy they like.  

I'm not sure it is effective. For instance, ICANN accreditation for a
registrar in .com requires the registrar to escrow a copy ot its
database to ICANN (I do not know how many comply). Therefore, US rules
apply to everybody, whatever the registrar it chooses.

> (Ever thought about  
> what happens when you put a thick registry into a country with  
> strict privacy regulations?)

The future .eu will work that way (thick and under "strict" privacy
regulations). Registrants who find these regulations too strict ("I
want to give away my personal data") can always transmit them by
themselves :-)

> With the thin model, the customer can go jurisdiction shopping when  
> selecting the registrar.  

The .eu registry will probably (people in Brussels still think about
it) implement a different model, where people will be able to express
their privacy desires (may be with P3P
<URL:http://www.w3.org/P3P/)>. Two contenders for the management of
the Registry, CORE and us, are working on a common proposal (do not
hold your breath, there are complicated technical and political
issues) for expressing privacy requirments.

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