Interesting, so privacy/proxy are alowed (fact). Not collecting and publishing personal data equals in what? Another level of privacy protection? I believe the general rule is to publicize all. The exception are the proxies, and having only a finantial reason (to pay for this service to have more "privacy") is the real gap. It's different from having a motivation to hide personal data - making the levels of protection, if it's the reason - more slippery and subjected to colateral damages, as subjective responsability. Omar 2011/7/6 Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>:
I do oppose any proxy/privacy services while maintaining the whois requirement. Either the data is required or proxy services are allowed. Both approaches conflict in practice.
If proxy/privacy services are allowed, whois services should not collect and publish personal data (of at least owner and admin) anymore.