* Smith, Bill wrote:
First, I believe the definitions as presented reasonably capture the sentiment of most, if not all, members of the Review Team (including me).
Thank you for this approval.
My concern is not with the definitions per se, but rather how they might be used in other contexts.
Current policies does not set up special rules for law enforcement as far as I can see.
For example, are the "legitimate needs of law enforcement" constrained by Applicable Laws?
Of course. That is the instrinctive nature of governmental executive bodies: They are bound to the law. Private cooperations are also bound to the local applicable law. But I misread your question. The term "applicable law" in our context deals with the laws for the normal business processes in domain registration and maintainence: The generation and maintainence of whois data. Your question is about access to whois data. That's a different issue.