Re[2]: [ga-sys] the Euro v. Americas issue on privacy plus

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

Hello Eric,

Thursday, June 28, 2001, 10:13:14 PM, Eric Dierker wrote:

> Thanks William,

> I gather from your deleted portion from this response that there is a polarization and
> us plywogs political types are merely feeding on it for ulterior motives. So those of
> us in the soon to be IDNH get trashed because of it.
> Life certainly ain't fair.

This presumes that my position with regard to any changes in privacy
policies with regard to whois would cause harm to domain owners.

My position is that it does not.  My position is that such changes
cause more harm than they resolve.

Without public whois access, for all domains, what a person can and
cannot do with their domain will be greatly effected.

Domain transfers, for instance, DEPEND on getting whois data to
authenticate transfer requests.  Secure certificate authorities depend
on whois outputs to verify the proper owner of a domain name and make
sure they only issue a cert to the proper owner.

Webhosting companies and numerous other uses of the information will
be greatly effected by any such change.

It would also make it easier for spammers and other network abusers to
hide.

I could foresee an RBL/MAPS like list that lists domains that have
"opted out" of whois, and automatically rejects emails from those
domains, with a message that "whois information cannot be retreived, so
we won't receive your email at this server".

I could go on. But I really don't think that ICANN will ever change
the whois policy.  The IP interests are powerful enough, and have
enough interest of their own in mandatory whois availability, as well
as the business and ISP constituencies, that a policy change like this
would be almost impossible to get adopted.

I think we have more productive uses for our time and effort.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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