[ga-sys] Re: [ga] Whois database

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Thanks Bill,

Regards,
Joanna



on 6/3/01 2:25 AM, William S. Lovell at wsl@cerebalaw.com wrote:

> Picking up on an old theme as I browse, there was a bill
> in the U.S. Congress that would prohibit copyright on
> data bases, mostly to protect scientific access to scientific
> data, but should apply here also.  Don't know the status of
> that bill right now, but someone might want to look it up.
> 
> Bill Lovell
> 
> Sandy Harris wrote:
> 
>> News story on NSI selling the whois database information:
>> 
>> http://www.msnbc.com/news/531732.asp?0nm=-1AP&cp1=1
>> 
>> Best read, I think, in conjunction with Auerbach's rant on
>> the whois database, ponit three under "What I would say to
>> the House Commerce Committee were I invited to testify" on
>> the menu page at:
>> 
>> http://www.cavebear.com/cavebear/growl/index.htm
>> 
>> I'd say one of the more useful things ICANN could do to
>> improve the net would be to make it clear to the contractors
>> that treating the data they manage for the net as proprietary
>> (let alone selling it!) is completely unnacceptable.
>> 
>> While they're at it, ask them to fix whois which has, in my
>> view, been broken since shortly after NSI started running it.
>> 
>> Even if a single central whois covering the whole net is no
>> longer practical, we want one broken down by TLD so things
>> can be found easily, not by registry. That is certainly
>> administratively convenient for the contractors, but not
>> remarkably useful to users.
>> 
>> To my mind, questions of getting the existing system to do
>> things right (fixing whois, getting rid of board squatters,
>> censuring stupid decisions like bodacioustats.com, getting
>> ready for DNSsec deployment) are as interesting as questions
>> of fixing the system itself (adding constituencies, etc) and
>> far more likely to produce useful results soon.
>> 
>> I'm emphatically not saying we should give up trying to change
>> the system, but it may be more productive to focus on specific
>> problems like this NSI action or the absurd tatas decision.
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