(apologies to those who receive multiple copies due to cross-posting) Dear colleagues, As you will probably be aware, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in May next year. This has forced domain registries and registrars to reassess their approach to data collection, retention, and disclosure - particuarly in regard to Whois/RDAP. Having thought about this topic for a little while, it occurred to me that there might be some benefit in a "straw man" proposal for how centralised databases of registration data might be avoided. So I wrote this Internet-Draft which describes a simple decentralised alternative to Whois/RDAP directories. Obviously it is far from a perfect solution, but I have yet to think of any criticism of it that does not equally to Whois/RDAP as they currently exist. So I have published my draft for feedback. Flame on! G. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: New Version Notification for draft-brown-whoami-00.txt Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 06:02:07 -0800 From: internet-drafts@ietf.org To: Gavin Brown <gavin.brown@centralnic.com> A new version of I-D, draft-brown-whoami-00.txt has been successfully submitted by Gavin Brown and posted to the IETF repository. Name: draft-brown-whoami Revision: 00 Title: A Method For Identifying a Domain Operator's Point of Contact (WHOAMI) Document date: 2017-12-19 Group: Individual Submission Pages: 7 URL: https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-brown-whoami-00.txt Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-brown-whoami/ Htmlized: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-brown-whoami-00 Htmlized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-brown-whoami-00 Abstract: This document proposes a decentralised alternative to traditional WHOIS directories. Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. The IETF Secretariat -- Gavin Brown Chief Technology Officer CentralNic Group plc (LSE:CNIC) Innovative, Reliable and Flexible Registry Services for ccTLD, gTLD and private domain name registries https://www.centralnic.com/ CentralNic Group plc is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 8576358. Registered Offices: 35-39 Moorgate, London, EC2R 6AR.