In my private practice getting to know the mane and
contact data of a domain name owner has proven useful.
I undestand that WHOIS data base is also a way of getting
addresses for spammig pourposes but we´re not going to stop spammer by
eliminating contact data on said data base and we are going to cut the chance of
contacting someone for legitimate business or to avoid legal
actions.
Sorry for the delay on posting my comment
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:15
AM
Subject: Re: [At-Large] Updates on the
WHOIS WG
Evan wrote:
>I believe that Beau is saying that
legitimate proxy services are OK but
that there must be a path to lead to a
real source.
Yes, that's what CR WebWatch is saying, and me, too.
Thanks once again
for your eloquence, Evan.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Evan Leibovitch [mailto:evan@telly.org]
Sent:
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:02 PM
To: Bret Fausett
Cc: At-Large writ
small; Brendler, Beau
Subject: Re: [At-Large] Updates on the WHOIS
WG
Bret Fausett wrote
> Ask that same person whether his
minor daughter should be required to
> publish her accurate contact
data (name, address, email address,
> telephone number) in a publicly
accessible database as a condition of
> getting an email address, a
weblog, or a homepage, and he'll scream
> "NO!"
This is
overreaction, judging from the thickness of my local telephone
directory.
Most people have no problem being tracked down to their phone
number or
address.
People who get Internet access generally do so through an ISP
that
records fairly detailed information, at least enough for
billing
purposes, as well as usually an agreement to the ISP's terms of
service.
Such information is not _publicly_ available, but it's available
with a
warrant.
While I am loathe to get dragged into "what about
the children?"
analogies, let's go with the one you used. If that minor
daughter is
engaging in on-line bullying of other kids or other kinds of
threats,
you're darned right that I want that activity tracable regardless
of how
loud she or her parents may scream. Privacy measures must never
prevent
people from facing the consequences of their actions. And being
underage
does not mean one is incapable of -- or should automatically
escape
responsibility for -- doing some pretty nasty stuff...
The
situation is no different for domains. I believe that Beau is saying
that
legitimate proxy services are OK but that there must be a path to
lead to a
real source.
-
Evan
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