[ga] RE: [ncdnhc-discuss] my nomination for ICANN Board

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

Thank you, Jeff.
You know how much we Europeans tend to consider this issue as important.
The CAPP II and TIA and many other US attitudes on privacy are here
regarded as ... disconcerting.

The real issue is: if the WhoIs is of any worth it must work. Overdoing
it will only create a tendency to passive resistance (generalized wrong
information) or to boycott (usage of other TLDs or open roots). Should
the Iraqi war go on (our role here is to consider the DNS issues) I would
fear a destabilization of the whole naming system should the fashion
develop to internationalize and detach oneself from an US image (I
understand that the US airline industry openly discussed that risk with
the USG, we could not be serious if we did not at least consider it prior
to adding to an increasingly questionned/resented system). I think that
relaxing the WhoIS to its minimum necessity is now an absolute commercial
need for NSI.
jfc




On 03:37 14/03/03, Neuman, Jeff said:

I usually do not step into these debates (since I am not a noncomm member, but I do like to follow the debates), but as a member of the US Policy Council, I have to correct a misunderstanding.  The US Policy Council discussed Whois Accuracy for several meetings and then I (along with the rest of Council) asked Mike to draw up the proposal that was being discussed.  Mike submitted the proposal, but it was in response to what we (the Council) asked him to and he volunteered to draft up our thoughts. 
 
I know for a fact that Michael is always championing Privacy rights (if you heard him speak in front of the FTC a few weeks ago, or attended his several presentations on Privacy laws with the Registrars and Registries). 
 
You can make whatever judgments you want, but I thought you might want the facts first.

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From: KathrynKL@aol.com [mailto:KathrynKL@aol.com]

Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:46 PM

To: DannyYounger@cs.com; discuss@icann-ncc.org

Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] my nomination for ICANN Board

Only a few weeks ago, here is Washington DC, I was on a panel with Michael.  The issue was Privacy and WHOIS, with a twist.  The US Federal Trade Commission wants much more accuracy in the WHOIS database -- as they pursue fraud across borders. 

Marilyn Cade proposed her WHOIS Task Force Report as the "right answer" and the FTC was very supportive.  Michael said no.  He said that there were privacy reasons why the data required of domain name registrants should not be globally available to all.  He said that Marilyn's report was not the right answer, and we needed to explore better ways of improving accuracy and privacy. 

It was a strong position to take, and he did it with Marilyn on the panel, too.

kathy

With all due respect, at a time when the Community was in the midst of the

debate on WHOIS (accuracy vs. privacy), Michael Palage produced a document

for the .us Policy Council favoring "accuracy".  Please see

http://www.neustar.us/policycouncil/palage_whoisdata.pdf and decide for

yourself the degree to which Michael supports the views of this constituency.

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