[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Community Input Requested on Two Draft Statements from ALAC to the ICANN Board

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

John and all,

  John, you may very well be right, but do you have
any hard evidance that clearly substanciates your
claim?  My guess is you don't.  Other reasons for
inaccurate Whois data are also evident, such as
failing to update registration data for example,
for whatever reason.  

  Wendy's point is still well taken.  However the
better solution is to adjust what information is
displayable in a Whois querry other than by LEA, whom
should have full Whois data access.  Casual Whois lookups
from non LEA's should not have access to ALL whois data
or data that is personally identifyable, such as a persons
home address or phone number.  To not protect personal
indetifyable information [ known as PII in legal parlences ]
is to expose that registrant to stalking, which has already
occured, harrassment, fraud scams of various sorts, ID Theft,
and other forms of illegal activities as well as ucerping
that registrants civil rights in many countries, and a 
violation of international law.  For instance we have
already seen recently how access by an FBI agent, whom was
a fraud themselves, to PII lead to several illegal immigration
activities as well as ID theft.  

  So the price for open access to Whois data that is 
personally identifyable information, as  you seem to 
proport John, is far to high and for to risky to far
too many, way to easily.  

-----Original Message-----
>From: John Levine <johnl at iecc.com>
>Sent: Apr 6, 2008 7:02 PM
>To: Wendy Seltzer <wendy at seltzer.com>
>Cc: At-Large writ small <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>, NA Discuss <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>Subject: Re: [At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Community Input Requested on Two Draft Statements from ALAC to the ICANN Board
>
>Speaking for CAUCE, we agree with all of Wendy's comments ...
>
>> Trade WHOIS accuracy for WHOIS privacy. When inaccuracy is the way to
>> preserve privacy, it's better than forced accuracy.
>
>  ... except this one.
>
>The vast majority of bogus WHOIS info is clearly not there for reasons of 
>personal privacy, but rather to hide the identities of perpetrators of 
>phishing, spam, and other kinds of fraud.
>
>R's,
>John


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