On 22 November 2011 23:22, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> wrote:
The question on the table is not whether DNS is the right vehicle, whether Whois is the right methodology, nor how public or private Whois should be. The question on the table is whether .com , .net and a few others should use "Thick" Whois or "Thin" Whois (as currently defined/designed). And more immediately, whether the Issue Report just published focuses on the correct issues related to this sole topic.
Thanks for bringing this back on track, Alan.
For the record, At-large and ALAC do consider issues relevant to Registrants. If we didn't, we would not have championed the Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) PDP. The benefits of PEDNR will accrue primarily to Registrants, with end users benefiting primarily as a result of websites, e-mail addresses and other uses of domain names not disappearing unexpectedly. However, many of us who are involved in At-Large do tend to take an end-user perspective on issues where it is judged that registrant rights are at odds with the rights/needs of the general non-registrant user or the public interest.
+1 - Evan