RE: [registrars] WLS - VOTING - Objection

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Tim Ruiz wrote:

> And I'm not suggesting that the personal information of the WLS holder not
> be gathered. Just that it not be publicly available. VeriSign or ICANN can
> use it to evaluate the WLS success, or lack of it, or whatever. I would just
> hate to see a repeat of the privacy fiasco that the port 43 Whois program
> has become.


look, we don't know what will happen... what we do know is that there will
be confusion and my customers that own IPR require that they know when
somone has a claim on their property, and the can identify the entity
involved, if the information is not public we have larger problems.

as for privacy, its illusion, is the only thing vanising.

-rick