WHOIS vote in the GNSO Council

[Mawaki Chango]

You are all welcome, but I'm afraid this is just one battle, not the
end of the struggle. With the shadow of the GAC looming, thanks to
its sudden keen interest in WHOIS issue whereby one powerful,
formally democratic government and supposedly pro-freedom, might give
the opportunity to the less democratic ones to figure out all the
nice things they can do with WHOIS.

Mawaki

--- Iliya Nickelt <iliya at GMX.DE> wrote:

> This is really good. I am glad that ICANN for once manages to
> surprise me
> in a positive way. Thanks, Robin, Mawaki and Norbert!
>
> I spend some time to analyse this wonderfull combination of
> TechSpeak and
> Law-babble. The thing I do not understand is the vague ending:
>
> "records associated with the domain name within a DNS nameserver".
>
> Does that mean the server's IP address only? Or does it simply not
> say
> anything about what records may or may not be in the database? In
> other
> words: Does it rule out the necessity of an administrative contact
> (aka
> "legally responsible person")? Am I asking for too much? I'm
> puzzled.
>
> 	--iliya
>
> PS: (a reminder from your EC) Please make sure you submit your (now
>
> certainly much more positive views) at
> http://www.icann-gnsoreview.org/
> if you have not done so. I just checked and it is still open. You
> should
> have received a password mid of March or just register yourself.
> Excuses
> are not accepted.
>