RE: [ga] "whois" survey

["Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>]

Joop, how about including your comments in the comments section?  I took a
look and I think it is hard to envision that a personal and governmental
registration would be the same; or that a personal and commercial
registration. I think that perhaps some might think that a non-commercial
and personal registration might be the same, but I would really make a
distinction in my own mind. For instance, I register a name for my
"personal/individual" use, but I also register a different name for an ad
hoc non-profit group I chair.... the latter is non-commercial or "other" in
my mind, not personal.

Was that example helpful as an illustration of what you were concerned
about? I wasn't sure and wanted to better understand what your question was
about the categories.



-----Original Message-----
From: Joop Teernstra [mailto:terastra@terabytz.co.nz]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 9:24 PM
To: ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] "whois" survey


An example of the bias from the survey introductory text:

"Names are also are registered by individuals who are holding names to 
resell, or possibly use in the future. It is the disclosure of data about 
individuals' registrations that has raised privacy issues."

No mention is made of  the common occurrence of registration for actual 
personal use in the present.

Example of the restriction in choice:

What was the general purpose of your registration:
a.commercial
b.governmental
c.personal
d.noncommercial organization
e.other

There is no possibility to tick more than one choice, while DNames could 
have been registered for any or all of these purposes.

Perhaps the survey can be adapted to correct these obvious shortcomings?





--Joop--
Founder of the Cyberspace Association.
Former bootstrap of the IDNO (www.idno.org)
Developer of    The Polling Booth
www.democracy.org.nz


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