John L wrote:

2) WHOIS

WHOIS should not be a publicly available database.

Registering a domain is not a license for registrants to harass Internet 

users anonymously.  The publicly available WHOIS is an essential facility 

to protect the vast, vast majority of at-large users who have never 

registered a domain and never will.

I'd agree, though I still have reservations about some aspects of this. 

However, as has been noted here and elsewhere, whois is not a topic 

people can really agree on. It would be better for all parties concerned 

to not get too bogged down in it, as there are other points on which 

some level of consensus has been reached

Privacy laws do prevail in this circumstance.

Oh, then we agree, since as I would hope everyone was aware, the United 

States, where ICANN and the largest registrars are located, has no 

meaningful privacy laws.

Very true

Needless to say, consensus on this point in this group is unlikely any 

time in the near future.

Also agreed.

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