RE: [ga] WHOIS data on .org domains

["Bruce Beckwith" <bbeckwith@pir.org>]

Thomas,

Thanks for your comments about whois, especially as it relates to .org, now
being managed by the Public Interest Registry (PIR).

Please know that you and others have listed just some of the many issues
that we've been discussing actively within PIR - we take privacy issues very
seriously - and as a global registry, we will not implement any product or
service without considering fully all implications from a world-wide
perspective.

As has been noted by others, we must offer whois services, and yes, we will
be transitioning from a "thin" registry, using the RRP protocol, to a
"thick" registry, using EPP, and this must be done by year-end 2003.  All of
these are requirements of our ICANN contracts.  None-the-less, we debate
these issues internally and will provide the absolute best solution that we
can.

We welcome comments and suggestions, either via lists, or off-list
(one-on-one dialogue allows for more direct and frank discussion where we
can get deep into the topic which might not interest most list
participants).

Regards,

Bruce


Bruce Beckwith
Public Interest Registry
bbeckwith@pir.org
+1 703.464.7005 x105

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org] On Behalf Of Thomas
Roessler
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 2:57 AM
To: DannyYounger@cs.com
Cc: michael@palage.com; ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] WHOIS data on .org domains

On 2003-02-13 11:56:07 -0500, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> Why does my expectation of privacy continue to be eroded in this
> ICANN process?

What makes this even more interesting is that PIR requires
registrars to transfer WHOIS information to the registry, which will
then be used to provide an xWHOIS service which permits searches by
registrant name.  If you look at the European Commission's and
IWGDPT's submissions to the WHOIS Task Force (they are linked from
the final report and say some things about that kind of search
service), you'll notice that the thin->thick transition is a legal
can of worms at least (!) for European registrars.

If I may dare an educated guess, their participation in the
transition is illegal as long as the xWHOIS service is on the table
and in the contracts.

Regards,
-- 
Thomas Roessler				<roessler@does-not-exist.org>
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