Hi Lutz,

I would like to partner with you on this effort and add another privacy consideration we must analyze regarding registration of data controllers and data processors of personally identifiable data.

Registration of data processors and data controllers, as you know, is an important privacy safeguard.

Unfortunately, this legal safeguard is not in place in most non-EU countries.

This is compounded by the fact that a number of EU countries have had difficulty enforcing the registration requirement so that the public, even in the EU, cannot feel assured that this privacy safeguard is reliable.

I would also like to join with you in looking at the Netherlands (.nl) and the approach they have taken to

balance data protection of Internet users vs. data protection of domain name owners/operators who are data processors/controllers. Their experience should be relevant and valuable to us.

Since this is an area of keen interest for me too, perhaps we can do some advance work to then share back with the rest of the team. At some point, our team has to confront this issue because it is a critical element of consumer trust and confidence in using the Internet.

Kind regards,

Lynn

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Rt4-whois] Preliminary Report - 28 Oct session +
Cartagena proposal
From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
Date: Fri, October 29, 2010 1:01 pm
To: rt4-whois@icann.org

Thank you for the report.

I was only partially available on this call due, so please let me ask my
question again on the list.

I'd like to volunteer for a survey about "whois usage" in order to find out
for which purpuse whois data is collected and for which purpose the
databases are queried. I fear, that both usage profiles (intended vs real)
will differ significantly.

Based on this survey, I'd propose a definition on basic "whois goals" and
then focus on the methods to reach them.

A possible outcame might be, that whois data is not used in any intended
way, so we can conclude to stop providing whois services at all.

If I get a positive response on this proposal, I'll prepare a draft
questionary.
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