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

[Milton L Mueller]

Actually the "rent-seeking" comes from the trademark and certain elements of the security community, who want ICANN and its institutional arrangements to raise costs for others in order to reduce their search costs. 

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> From: NCSG-Discuss [mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf
> Of McTim
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:26 PM
> To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] .CAT WHOIS Proposed Changes - call for public
> comments - Think hard!!
> 
> 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