Thank you Lutz! Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: "Smith, Bill" <bill.smith@paypal-inc.com> Sender: rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:47:41 To: Lutz Donnerhacke<lutz@iks-jena.de> Cc: rt4-whois<rt4-whois@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Rt4-whois] Updated Recommendation 14 - Centralized Database We're in agreement. On Nov 30, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 04:05:53PM -0700, Smith, Bill wrote:
This wouldn't solve the proxy problem. It provides a single point of *access* to WHOIS data. What is returned, is whatever resides in "the registry of record". If a privacy or proxy services has been used, they will have inserted some of their own data into that registry. The "grand unified WHOIS service" simply returns that.
There is no technical solution for social problems.
By our (RT4) understanding of proxy services, the proxy is a full replacement for the registrant, so - in terms of the ICANN policies - the proxy *is* the registrant. Therefore the result from the WHOIS is correct.
By our (RT4) understanding of privacy services, the operator does provider a level of indirection between the WHOIS output and the final registrant. If there will be an approbriate policy for privacy services sometimes in the future, the result from the WHOIS is correct.
There are recommendations which deals with those problems. The WHOIS results itself are unaffected by those recommendations.
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