It is in every gTLD contract that they must provide a whois service. but if it is to do THAT whois service, then it is a joke and the onus is on ICANN to set the rules to insure consistency and accuracy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@cavebear.com> To: at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org Sent: Tuesday, 1 February, 2011 11:48:15 AM Subject: Re: [At-Large] privacy, was Impressions from the Whois-Review On 01/31/2011 01:12 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
Why I agree the WHOIS needs to be accurate and may be non-obfuscated
There is a completely lawful domain name business model in which there is *no* record made of who acquired a domain name. Rather control is vested into a digital certificate - much like a bearer bond - which can be issued without capturing identity and transferred entirely without knowledge of the registry (a non-repudiation database of transfers can be maintained by a third party.) At least one of the 40 applicants of year 2000 - who are still waiting for ICANN - used such a model. I do find it amusing that on one hand many of us whine when government bodies or industrial groups insist that ICANN create thus-and-so policy yet at the same time we say that it's just fine for us to insist that ICANN create this-and-that policy. Impositions on lawful activities are impositions on lawful activity whether those impositions are advocated by governments, industrial actors, or ICANN's so-called "at large advisory" groups. --karl-- _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org