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<div>Before submitting longer comments on the report I would like to
point out that issues regarding access to data were specifically
NOT addressed by the TF at this stage. Instead, the report focuses
only on the marketing of WHOIS data and its impact on personal
privacy. The TF acknowledges in the report that these other issues
need to be addressed and recommends that work should continue in this
area:</div>
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<div>"This Task Force, or another appropriate body, will need to
address several key issues, including the question of "access" to
WHOIS; whether differential<br>
access is a useful concept; how standards fit in; and what their
'status' is; what privacy issues are for individuals versus
corporate or organizational<br>
representatives listed in WHOIS; how to develop acceptable processes
with the agreement of the ccTLDs; what national laws may be determined
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<div>applicable."<br>
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<div>This is NOT intended to be the final word on privacy and WHOIS
issues. Rather, it is an attempt to recommend policy in those areas
where consensus could be easily reached i.e. bulk access for
marketing purposes.</div>
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<div>So while its true that this report does not offer any
satisfactory resolution of these issues for the long term, and perhaps
the TF can be criticized for moving too slowly in this regard, there
is at least still an opportunity to change current WHOIS policies on
disclosure of and access to personal information. I encourage
members of this constituency to continue to submit comments and to
keep the pressure on the TF to address these serious privacy
concerns.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Danny:<br>
The point that you raise is a very good one, and I have written
privately to Sarah about it. So let me ask: To
all in NCC, if you have already submitted comments to the WHOIS Task
Force, could you tell us (preferably the whole NCC)<br>
a) your comments (in brief)<br>
b) whether they were incorporated into the WHOIS Task Force report
and<br>
c) what remains to be done to better protect privacy.<br>
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Comments at this stage of the game will be far more successful if we
(even new commenters) can build upon the ideas and proposals of those
who have already participated.<br>
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With thanks to all who have spent worked on this to date,<br>
Kathy Kleiman<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">you wrote:
"Like telephone numbers, we need an "unlisted"
version of the WHOIS registration for noncommercial domain name
registrants. But I did not see this idea reflected in the WHOIS
report."</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Please note
that I submitted a similar proposal to the Task Force in late August
at
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/dnsocomments/comments-whois/Arc00/msg00015.h<span
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One has to wonder if the Task Force ever reads and discusses these
comments, or if they only go through the motions of listing the
comments tendered...</font></blockquote>
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