Proposed public comment on .CAT WHOIS Proposed Changes

[Hakikur Rahman]

If I may comment, is it about the indigenous communities that is
being referred by protect natural persons, then protect indigenous
communities may suffice better! If it is the individual person in a
community, then it seems alright. Cultural biodiversity at the grass
roots is also a concern.

Thanking you,
Hakikur

At 09:30 PM 2/16/2012, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
>As we discussed on the NCSG call Wednesday, we had begun drafting a
>statement for the punctCAT public comment. On the call, we heard support
>for finalizing that statement and sending it in, despite being shortly
>past the comment period's closing.  Below, the statement for your review
>and approval. Thanks to Avri for coordinating a draft from which this draws:
>
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>The NCSG wishes to express its support for punctCAT's proposed amendment
>to allow natural persons an opt-out measure by which some WHOIS data
>would be withheld from public view.
>
>At the same time, we do not believe the request offers the opt-out
>opportunity broadly enough to satisfy all legitimate privacy needs. The
>NCSG believes there are several types of institution that require
>similar opportunities to opt out from public display of their identity
>and address details.  Among those institutional types are organizations
>that:
>
>  * protect natural persons
>  * deal with political freedoms,
>  * deal with religious freedoms,
>  * deal with sexual preference and expression,
>  * deal with political minorities,
>  * deal with religious minorities,
>and parents' groups that deal with children's activities such as sports
>teams, home-schooling and other childcare issues.
>
>As the privacy of natural persons is protected within the EU Data
>Protection Directive, political parties and minority speech are
>protected within the privacy rules in other national laws. Given that
>gTLDs are global, it will be important to take all national laws
>into account.
>
>The NCSG further expresses concern that law enforcement and third party
>access to the data should be consistent with due process protections. We
>urge development of these disclosure procedures in conjunction with the
>Community.