Re: [ga] OECD vs ICANN, re: WHOIS accuracy

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Joe and all assembly members,

  We {INEGroup] agree with you on this Joe, as you likely know.
Indeed stability of the DNS or the Internet as a whole certainly
does not depend even in the slightest on WHOIS.

Joe Baptista wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, George Kirikos wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I found the following story interesting:
> >
> > http://www.demys.net/news/02_jul_02_oecd.htm
> >
> > Hopefully the WHOIS taskforce is watching. I agree with the OECD's
> > position, that WHOIS accuracy affects the stability of the internet.
>
> I disagree.  The stability of the internet is not dependent on the whois
> engines.  It can just as easily be argued that whois accuracy can be a
> violation of a citizens rights to privacy, especially in some europrean
> countries.
>
> The whois was simply a means of contacting authority and techs for a
> specific contact record, be it domain, contact, nameserver network etc.
> If something went boink - you had a means of contacting a responsible
> person.
>
> thats all it is.  what it is not is a tool for lawyers.  man disagree but
> thats the way it is.  the .god and .satan whois engines allow for privacy.
> i suspect based on our past history that much of the fraud found in the
> united states whois is system is simply people seeking their right to
> privacy.
>
> all this whois stuff is a bit of a red herring.  people will run their
> whois's as they deem fit and those who anticipate user privacy needs as we
> did will rule the day.
>
> stability of the internet is based on tamper proof protocols and not the
> accuracy of domain name search engines.
>
> regards
> joe baptista
> www.dot-god.com
>
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