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

[Milton L Mueller]

It's been obvious for years that Whois does not need to contain much personal contact information in order to serve its basic technical coordination functions. The demand for more comes from law enforcement, because it allows them to bypass due process requirements, and from TM lawyers, who get free access to contact data that would in any normal industry be shielded and only released when some kind of need or requirement was provided

> -----Original Message-----
> 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