On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:19:33AM -0500, Kathy Kleiman wrote:
Thank you for the detailed answers below. I am still working through them and urge others to review them closely as well. I would very much like to see the "all-whois" website you have been running since 1996 -- would you be willing to share the link?
The current state (focused on the German speaking community) is http://www.iks-jena.de/eng/Tools/Whois It's mostly useful for looking up IP addresses, especially IPv6 transition addresses like 2001:0:d911:c0d9:0:fbde:3d50:212c or 2002:d911:c0d9::1 The majority of users come from the German Law Enforcement (low level crime), simply because they are happy to call German speaking people in the case of trouble.
There does seem to be a difference in how we view the AoC. I never saw as **requiring ** ICANN to have an operational role in running websites
You are absolutly right. The AoC does not urge ICANN to operate a service at it's own. But - in order to fulfill the requirements from the AoC - the only party, which can run such a service, is ICANN itself. Therefore the proposal.
I will send back more detailed comments shortly. Thank you for this discussion online and, hopefully, in CR as well. And thanks for the link to
No, I'll not make it to CR. I was ill (recurrent corneal erosion) between the years and be urged to do not travel that far in the next few months.