Dear Lutz, Thanks for your email, and thanks so much for leading in the chat room yesterday during the Public Forum. I am so glad we had a voice responding in real time there too, much appreciated! Kathy :
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:39:55AM -0700, James M. Bladel wrote:
Except we are talking about it, so it didn't really work. :)
An an other one: Somebody from a German LKA (Law enforcement agency) contacted me last week with this interesting question:
They had lost an identity of a person in a witness protection program by a simple WHOIS query (in this case using an IP WHOIS lookup). So they ask, how can they use "privacy" or "proxy" services which does not point to the police in order to protect their clients?
It's also important, that they do not want to have a private company out there, which can correlate those identities with police activities.
Currently they simply ask the ISPs and registrars to put in obviously false or no information at all into the WHOIS records. They fear, the have to provide something to "comply" with "new policies of ICANN".
BTW: You are doing a fantastic job there. Thank you! _______________________________________________ Rt4-whois mailing list Rt4-whois@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/rt4-whois