[NA-Discuss] Whois, ARIN & GDPR

Joly MacFie joly at punkcast.com
Sat Apr 14 20:19:16 UTC 2018


Below from NANOG, made me wonder if same is true for ARIN? How available is
that data i.e
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AS and IP address maintainers?


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matt Harris <matt at netfire.net>
Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog at nanog.org>


On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org> wrote:
>
> The only people served by restriction on WHOIS availability are abusers
> and attackers, and the entities (e.g., registrars) who profit from them.
>

Not that whois data for domain names has been particularly useful for the
past decade anyhow since most TLDs and registrars either provide for free,
or sell as an addon, "private" registration via some "proxy corporation" or
whatever.  Domain name whois for most TLDs has not been the sort of
accountability measure that ICANN seems to think it is for a very long
time, at least in practice.

I'd be much more concerned about RIPE's whois data for
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AS and IP address
maintainers.



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