John and all, There should be no preference as registrants are also users. Registrants should have no more or no less level of privacy that any non-registrant user has and is guarenteed them under the law of their country of origin or domocile. -----Original Message-----

From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Sent: May 23, 2008 5:13 PM To: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> Cc: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [At-Large] ALAC Action Requested on Privacy

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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.

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