These situations are exceptions, rather than the rule. I would venture a guess that these folks are not businesses for the most part. I feel it is wrong that the minority position is the criteria for the majority. Exceptions can be made for those in the exceptional conditions. We are looking at this with no hard data, which makes it difficult to come to an intelligent decision. The best we can really do is decide on a philosophical position (or a policy), then look for problems with it. ===== During this conversation, no mention has been made that whois data accuracy is the rule (contract rule) and to advocate changing the rule is one thing and advocating breaking the rule is quite another. --bob On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Eduardo Diaz wrote:
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:32:44 -0400 From: Eduardo Diaz <eduardodiazrivera@gmail.com> To: John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: NA Discuss <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Domain-name abuse proliferates
Let me see... I have a friend that lives in the middle of a mountain here in Puerto Rico, he does not get postal mail but uses a satellite link to connect to the Internet. I am pretty sure this is the case in other places (like I witness in Peru).
-ed
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:29 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
So if I live in the middle of nothing (where I can not receive paper mail)
I will not be able to register any domains? That effectively will exclude some people of doing legitimate business through the Internet.
Could you identify some places where people live that have ISPs but no postal mail?
R's, John