John, We live in a world where there are competing rights. Your own right to free speech is tempered by laws that prohibit you from maliciously screaming "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre. Within ICANN I think that it's well past time to acknowledge that privacy rights exist, and that they too must be tempered by appropriate policy. regards, Danny --- John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
Privacy is a fundamental human right recognized in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights and in many other international and regional treaties. If you require some basic information on privacy rights as they exist in your jurisdiction, please feel free to contact:
Sounds great. So are we agreed that a core value of ICANN should be to protect the privacy of all individual Internet users, without giving preference to the small minority who have registered domains?
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.