All my friends, Why is keeping personal data in whois important? Do you want to be victim such as happened with WE? See: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SNOOPING_WORKERS?SITE=NHPOR&SECTION=H... I for one am glad to see that the US congress and two of the presidential candidates are taking this much more seriously. It's long past time for ICANN to do so with registrar registration data as well as Whois. Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827