Re: [At-Large] Impressions from the Whois-Review

* John R. Levine wrote:

There certainly should be a balance. But when there are a billion Internet users, and thousands of individual vanity domain registrants

Whois is more than "second level domain" information. It's also IP address information. What's the problem with thin whois ... delegating the whois down to the registrar or reseller, down to the access ISP? This way the collection, deletion and publishing laws can be respected directly.