[At-Large] Impressions from the Whois-Review
Avri Doria
avri at acm.org
Mon Jan 31 17:55:25 UTC 2011
Hi,
I would have to agree.
At-Large seems to care far more about the Law Enforcement point of view than it has cared about the Privacy point of view.
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.
a.
On 31 Jan 2011, at 11:53, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 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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