[At-Large] Impressions from the Whois-Review

[Omar Kaminski]

I argue for balance between both.

Omar


2011/1/31 Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>:
> Hi,
>
> I would have to  agree.
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> At-Large seems to care far more about the Law Enforcement point of view than it has  cared about the Privacy point of view.
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> I have felt an ever increasing Law and Order posture in At-Large over the last years.  Those arguing for Privacy are definitely in the minority.
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> a.
>
>
> On 31 Jan 2011, at 11:53, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
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>> On 31 January 2011 11:37, John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I really wish that the ALAC would get over the 1990s idea that somehow it
>>> represents the tiny handful of individual vanity domain registrants (such
>>> as me) in preference to the vast majority of users who have never
>>> registered a domain and never will.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Pardon?
>>
>> I hope I'm not lumped in with that description.
>>
>> Registrants are -- at least in the ICANN flowchart -- supposely represented
>> by the non-contracted house of GNSO. Whether that's an appropriate or
>> effective vehicle for their interests is a different debate,
>>
>> But At-Large is (always in theory and increasingly in practise) about the
>> individual end user -- I still bristle at the term "consumer" because even
>> that implies financial transaction. It has taken some time finding its feet
>> but I don't think that the ALAC of today speaks to the vanity interests you
>> speak of. Indeed, privacy advocates have (at least in my experience) found
>> At-Large to be not particularly friendly to the notion that domain owners
>> have the unrestricted right to hide.
>>
>> - Evan
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