May 15, 2012
2:05 p.m.
Historically, going back to the interim ALAC, this group had a strong pro-privacy stance. I noticed over the last 2 or 3 years that the statements evolved in the opposite direction, possibly under the influence of some who have a business interest in an open-to-anyone WHOIS.
It's true, when I arrived on the interim ALAC, it was firmly fixated on vanity registrants. I think I was among the first to push it toward thinking about the other billion non-registrants. If you can only imagine that the ALAC is paying attention to the people it was created to represent because someone was been paid off, that's really rather sad. R's, John