Lutz, I take this review seriously, and I am certain everyone else does as well. I have no issue with your blog post and sincerely apologize if I gave the impression that I did. Regards, Bill On Feb 2, 2011, at 12:46 AM, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
* Smith, Bill wrote:
While I agree that identifying use cases for Whois data is an interesting exercise, I respectfully suggest that it is beyond the remit of this Review Team.
We discussed this point in London as one of the first items on the agenda and came to the conclusion, that we have a clear definition from ICANN:
Whois is a "timely, unrestricted and public access to accurate and complete information, including registrant, technical, billing, and administrative contact information."
If we take this point deeply serious, we do not need a subgroup of (inter)national law as well a subgroup of law enforcement definition, because we only have a mandate to check the current policies how they support the requirement above.
Please forgive me, that I expressed my personal view outside this group and informed you about it. _______________________________________________ Rt4-whois mailing list Rt4-whois@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/rt4-whois