The problem with decoupling is that it is dangerous for many non criminals (except for those guilty for free speech crimes under repressive regimes) to give true information unti there is privacy. The issues MUST remian coupled. avri Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
On 14 May 2012 17:18, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
(I do, however, believe that the whois is a privacy disaster
The anonymity for criminals with vanity domains argument is so 20th century.
In my own opinion, the argument about providing privacy to domain owners *must* be decoupled from the matter of WHOIS accuracy and stability. The unwillingness to decouple these issues has been an impediment to sane policy, and I see this report as a step in the right direction.
There are discussions over tactics that could be done to enhance privacy protections for those who are not using it to defraud, but those discussions are IMO unrelated to the more common-sense matter of registrants providing deliberately obfuscated contact information.
(Ultimately, I would wish to dig even deeper than this, and challenge the widely-held-within-ICANN assumption that everyone on earth ought to own at least one domain. This unspoken assumption drives everything from WHOIS policy, to attitudes on domaining and the new gTLD program, to ICANN's warped definition of "consumer". IMO this assumption needs to be exposed, confronted, and beaten down with a stick.)
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