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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:11:02 +0200
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@sun.com>,
	Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
From: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@jefsey.com>
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References: <430A56B0.7207@xyzzy.claranet.de> <20050823153847.GA24719@nic.fr>
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Cc: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>,
	rfci-discuss@lists.megacity.org, ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: New attempt to kill "whois"
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At 23:35 23/08/2005, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:38, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > Nobody suggested to kill the whois protocol, just the badly written
> > and obsolete RFCs which were requiring violations of various european
> > laws regarding privacy. Neither ICANN or IETF should specify privacy
> > policy for a ccTLD.
>
>I believe Frank's concern is that he wants the ability to refuse
>services to sites who have not published accurate contact information
>through whois.  If a ccTLD were to, for instance,  refuse to publish any
>contact information (even if the registrant *wanted* it published) this
>makes his life difficult.
>
>I'd hope that European privacy laws would be flexible enough to allow
>for voluntary publication of contact information by TLD operators.

Dear Bill,
voluntary publication of information has an extremely flexible and 
powerfull tool at its disposition. It is named the web.

As a ccTLD Registry we do _not_ publish any information. For three reasons:
- this is the best way to be sure we respect privacy laws everywhere.
- we do not have the budget.
- we do not see the need.

Should a registrant want to publish his data, we are not opposed if 
he pays the cost. Such a whois service's cost would not be to deliver 
one registrant's data, but to receive requests for all the non 
documented registrants and the DoS.
jfc


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