.CAT WHOIS Proposed Changes - call for public comments - Think hard!!

[Nicolas Adam]

The devilish details will have to be with framing a balancing act
between privacy and network operations.

Which brings me back to a previously unanswered set of questions
regarding facts crucial to think about the appropriate balance to be
sought between privacy and network operations.

I asked (with apologies for naivety/ignorance):
>
> In the interest of seeing what could be done to alleviate the
> challenges of network operators, could someone be kind enough to
> present a digestible summary (or accessible references) that groups
> the usual things that are sought by operators from registrants when
> dealing with typical classes of network problems, as well as the
> purpose for which they are sought after.
>
> Perhaps the possibility of certain actions on account of a registrant
> (or the possession of certain information) could be transferred to [a]
> proxy service offering hard anonymity, so that it could cooperate with
> operators under certain classes of context?

Any ideas on how to preserve the balance, McTim?

Nicolas

On 23/01/2012 12:38 PM, McTim wrote:
> indeed Alex, but I don't see this as being in the interest of
> non-commercials nor in the public interest in the larger sense.
>
> WHOIS is only useful if one can get useful information from it!
>
> Regards,
>
> McTim
>
> On 1/23/12, Alex Gakuru<gakuru at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Isn't NCSG list a vehicle for advancing non-commercial interests?
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:26 PM, McTim<dogwallah at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/23/12, Konstantinos Komaitis<k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk>  wrote:
>>>> So how does my proposal for submitting this set of comments as a NCSG
>>>> position manifests that I 'try to obtain benefits for myself'? I think
>>> there
>>>> is something wrong here with your sense of smelling.
>>> I didn't mean you personally...You asked if anyone had any objection,
>>> and I raised mine.
>>>
>>> I'm not a big fan of obfuscation of contact details in WHOIS, and
>>> can't see that non-commercials are in any way more or less special per
>>> this requirement than anyone else!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> McTim
>>> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
>>> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>>>
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