[EURO-Discuss] Comment period on the RAA revision

[Patrick Vande Walle]

I am not aware of any discussion on this topic here, but anyway, these 
are the the comments I sent to ICANN regarding that topic.

Hope it can be helpful.

Patrick

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Whois
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:37:30 +0200
From: Patrick Vande Walle <patrick at vande-walle.eu>
Reply-To: patrick at vande-walle.eu
To: raa-consultation at icann.org

3.3 Public Access to Data on Registered Names

This section of the RAA has been left untouched, although it is well
known to ICANN and its community that this contravenes several national
and international laws.

See
http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/docs/wpdocs/2003/wp76_en.pdf
and http://www.icann.org/correspondence/schaar-to-cerf-12mar07.pdf

Quoting this last letter: "Privacy issues stemming from the making
available of personal data in  the context of the operation of the WHOIS
services should be solved through amendments to the registrar
accreditation agreement that would offer at least to those registrars
located in EU member countries to comply with EU data protection
legislation in accordance with the basic principles of data protection
and privacy."

How can ICANN justify that it forces, by contract, other parties to
break the law ?

Thank you

Patrick Vande Walle



-- 
Patrick Vande Walle
Check my blog: http://patrick.vande-walle.eu