[At-Large] [WHOIS-WG] [U.S] Federal Trade Commission Report on Privacy

[Lutz Donnerhacke]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:15:26AM -0500, Carlton Samuels wrote:
> " - *Privacy by Design*: Build in privacy at every stage of product
> development;
> - *Simplified Choice for Businesses and Consumers*: Give consumers the
> ability to make decisions about their data at a relevant time and context,
> including through a Do Not Track mechanism, while
> reducing the burden on businesses of providing unnecessary choices; and
> - *Greater Transparency*: Make information collection and use practices
> transparent."

So they like to have a "thin whois"?
 - Every contractor needs to run a whois server providing information
   about the contract and a link to the downstream whois server of
   the downstream contact.
 - After accessing all the whois servers down the reseller chain, we end
   up at the real data.
 - Every whois server has to be operated according local law.

Startpoint and example:
$ whois -h whois.iana.org thur.de

refer:        whois.denic.de

domain:       DE

organisation: DENIC eG
address:      Kaiserstrasse 75-77
address:      Frankfurt am Main  60329
address:      Germany

contact:      administrative
name:         Vorstand DENIC eG
organisation: DENIC eG
address:      Kaiserstrasse 75-77
address:      Frankfurt am Main  60329
address:      Germany
phone:        +49 69 27235 0
fax-no:       +49 69 27235 235
e-mail:       vorstand at denic.de

contact:      technical
name:         Business Services
organisation: DENIC eG
address:      Kaiserstrasse 75-77
address:      Frankfurt am Main  60329
address:      Germany
phone:        +49 69 27235 272
fax-no:       +49 69 27235 234
e-mail:       dbs at denic.de

nserver:      A.NIC.DE 194.0.0.53 2001:678:2:0:0:0:0:53
nserver:      F.NIC.DE 2a02:568:0:2:0:0:0:53 81.91.164.5
nserver:      L.DE.NET 2001:668:1f:11:0:0:0:105 77.67.63.105
nserver:      S.DE.NET 195.243.137.26
nserver:      Z.NIC.DE 194.246.96.1
ds-rdata:     24220 8 2 ffe926aca67ed94089390250f1f294ac84a6d84f9121df73a79e439f42e820c2

whois:        whois.denic.de

status:       ACTIVE
remarks:      Registration information: http://www.denic.de/

created:      1986-11-05
changed:      2011-06-08
source:       IANA