Any study of WHOIS that does not include representation from end-users (note that end-users and domain registrants are not interchangable terms -- domain registrants are, in fact, a percentage of end-users) will be flawed and lack credibility. My neighbor doesn't register domains. My nephew doesn't, either. Nor does my mother. They should have a representative voice. The real data I have seen, as I have said before, tells me end-users do not value privacy of domain name registrants over stability, security and fraud issues. If you have not read this and the accompanying user comments, please do so: http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/09/to-some-its-the.html The end-user voice has been missing from all the back-and-forth over this issue over the last five years. And that's why ICANN and its constituent communities have failed to make progress. -----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Vittorio Bertola Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 1:03 PM To: RJGlass | America@Large Cc: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [At-Large] WHOIS Stalemate: more studies, any you'd like? RJGlass | America@Large ha scritto:
However, Vittorio, how can you say IP lawyers are less credible? Especially in this group - that's supposed to be my job! - kidding ;)
Apologies :) I just meant to say that we should ask to lawyers who do not have clients that have a vested interest in how the rules are interpreted, ie are not being paid to support a particular interpretation of the rules. And there's nothing bad in being paid to that purpose, it's just that the study should be unbiased (so I would also reject lawyers who are being paid to support an opposite interpretation of the rules, of course, though that's a much less frequent situation). -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <-------- _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann .org At-Large Official Site: http://www.alac.icann.org ALAC Independent: http://www.icannalac.org *** Scanned