On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:15:26AM -0500, Carlton Samuels wrote:
" - *Privacy by Design*: Build in privacy at every stage of product development; - *Simplified Choice for Businesses and Consumers*: Give consumers the ability to make decisions about their data at a relevant time and context, including through a Do Not Track mechanism, while reducing the burden on businesses of providing unnecessary choices; and - *Greater Transparency*: Make information collection and use practices transparent."
So they like to have a "thin whois"? - Every contractor needs to run a whois server providing information about the contract and a link to the downstream whois server of the downstream contact. - After accessing all the whois servers down the reseller chain, we end up at the real data. - Every whois server has to be operated according local law. Startpoint and example: $ whois -h whois.iana.org thur.de refer: whois.denic.de domain: DE organisation: DENIC eG address: Kaiserstrasse 75-77 address: Frankfurt am Main 60329 address: Germany contact: administrative name: Vorstand DENIC eG organisation: DENIC eG address: Kaiserstrasse 75-77 address: Frankfurt am Main 60329 address: Germany phone: +49 69 27235 0 fax-no: +49 69 27235 235 e-mail: vorstand@denic.de contact: technical name: Business Services organisation: DENIC eG address: Kaiserstrasse 75-77 address: Frankfurt am Main 60329 address: Germany phone: +49 69 27235 272 fax-no: +49 69 27235 234 e-mail: dbs@denic.de nserver: A.NIC.DE 194.0.0.53 2001:678:2:0:0:0:0:53 nserver: F.NIC.DE 2a02:568:0:2:0:0:0:53 81.91.164.5 nserver: L.DE.NET 2001:668:1f:11:0:0:0:105 77.67.63.105 nserver: S.DE.NET 195.243.137.26 nserver: Z.NIC.DE 194.246.96.1 ds-rdata: 24220 8 2 ffe926aca67ed94089390250f1f294ac84a6d84f9121df73a79e439f42e820c2 whois: whois.denic.de status: ACTIVE remarks: Registration information: http://www.denic.de/ created: 1986-11-05 changed: 2011-06-08 source: IANA