Re: [ga-sys] Registrants Charter - FREEDOMS - Part 1

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Joanna,

Tuesday, May 15, 2001, 9:17:09 AM, Joanna Lane wrote:

> This document draws attention to one significant discrepancy between
> ICANN-adopted policy, and the European Commission-adopted policy with regard
> to Registrar-Registrant Agreements.

> Freedoms granted December 2000 require that all EU citizens of the 15 member
> nations who chose to register Second Level Domain Names as individuals shall
> have the right to opt out of the WHOIS database altogether.

Bad plan.

The whois database is an essential publicly available record, and
there should be no opt out options for registered domain names.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh
mailto:william@userfriendly.com
Owner, Userfriendly.com
Userfriendly.com Domains
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