[At-Large] Private v. Public.

[Carlton Samuels]

Long before the WHOIS Final Report was published, the ALAC is on record for
this - privacy/proxy - position.
-Carlton

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Holly Raiche <h.raiche at internode.on.net>wrote:

> This is pretty much where the Whois Final Report was heading.  Work out
> who can use a privacy/proxy server (the difference between individuals and
> organisations was discussed), but then ensure access to all information to
> LEAs - for legitimate LEA reasons.  And yes - again - once privacy
> protections are there (whatever they are called) insist on accuracy.
>
> Holly
>
> > Personally, I like the middle ground of CIRA, the Canadian ccTLD that has
> > different disclosure policies for individials and organizations. It
> allows
> > individual registrants to hide criticlal parts of WHOIS for casual
> lookups,
> > but does not offer that facility to organizations. In doing so, it still
> > demands accurate WHOIS data.
> On 22/01/2013, at 7:58 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>
> > Agreed with about everything Bill said.
> >
> >> A domain name is not a requirement to speak anonymously on the internet.
> >
> > This is the fatally flawed assumption in most privacy arguments,
> including
> > Karl's.
> >
> > ICANN long ago made the policy decision that Internet domains are
> property,
> > not identity. As such they can (and should) be treated with the same
> > requirements of ownership disclosure as other forms of intellectual
> > property, which by and large are publicly searchable. Functionally (if
> not
> > technically), WHOIS shouldn't have disclosure policies much different
> from
> > TESS <http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=4005:890zev.1.1>.
> >
> > Such a mechanism may lead one to proxies, but those proxies must
> themselves
> > provide accurate information that can ultimately, as required, ultimately
> > give a trusted path back to the source.
> >
> > Personally, I like the middle ground of CIRA, the Canadian ccTLD that has
> > different disclosure policies for individials and organizations. It
> allows
> > individual registrants to hide criticlal parts of WHOIS for casual
> lookups,
> > but does not offer that facility to organizations. In doing so, it still
> > demands accurate WHOIS data.
> >
> > - Evan
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