RE: [registrars] proposals before whois TF

[Paul Stahura <stahura@enom.com>]

Ken,

I have serious issues with this document.
I am as much against bad info in the whois as anyone, but this proposal
will not reduce the bad information that fraudsters provide, will increase
the costs for everyone and will also lead to other seriously negative side
effects.
For example, if a call back system was implemented (really expensive)
whereby the phone of 
each and every registrant was called
to verify the accuracy of the phone number, why wouldn't a dishonest person
easily and really cheaply defeat that system by entering the phone number of
a nearby public telephone, or disposable phone?
Therefore, this one example would lead to:
1) Honest people with, fresh, valid telephone numbers in the public whois
which can now be used by tele-marketers (at least block access to them from
automated collection mechanisms, except by law enforcement).
2) A more educated class of dishonest people that incur even more costs on
the rest of us.
Who are the members of the TF, I'd like to send them an email directly.
I don't think they have a deep understanding of the problem or are not
seeing the subtleties of this complex problem or something.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Stubbs [mailto:kstubbs@digitel.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 7:35 AM
To: Registrars
Subject: [registrars] proposals before whois TF
Importance: High



fellow registrars...ttached are some proposal being currently discussed in
the whois TF which can significantly affect registrars .

i would STTRONGLY SUGGEST  that you review this paper and provide comments
wher you find themn necessary..

in previous discussion both in teleconf and at amsterdam i indicated that
the tone was changing with respect to whois compliance..

this is a concrette example of what i was referring to

best wishes

ken stubbs