If you ask a person whether he believes that entities sending bulk unsolicited email should be required to publish accurate contact data (name, address, email address, telephone number) for the source of the email in a publicly accessible database, he'll say "YES!" 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!" As with all research, the hard policy choices are between these boundary cases. Wendy has been our point person on whois issues for a long time, and I'm sure she would be happy to help. I can help too. Let us know what you might need to get up to speed. Bret On Jul 10, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Brendler, Beau wrote:
Bret --
That just hasn't come up.
We'll do some research.
BB -----Original Message----- From: Bret Fausett [mailto:bfausett@internet.law.pro] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:36 AM To: Brendler, Beau Cc: Vittorio Bertola; Wendy Seltzer; At-Large writ small Subject: Re: [At-Large] Updates on the WHOIS WG
Probably a very small percentage would register or have registered a domain name (which is a piece of survey research I am suggesting we do internally), and therefore very few would care about registrants' privacy rights.
I'll bet that's not quite correct. Just because a person isn't afraid of being stalked because their own home address isn't in the whois database doesn't mean they would support the ability of stalkers to easily find their friends and neighbors. Most people aren't that self-centric ...and I think a healthy concern for others is a hallmark attribute of CU's members.
-- Bret
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