RE: [nc-whois] Tucows Comments on the WHOIS TF Final Report

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

One thing that concerns me also is that it is "easy" but also unfair to characterize all concerns about keeping WHOIS available as driven by trademark, patent, and copyright lobbies. Consumers use WHOIS to see who is behind a web site their child visits, businesses check out suppliers, etc. Privacy issues for a business, or an organization, or someone who is conducting commerce on the Internet may be very different than someone who is indeed an individual.   As a  Task Force, let's keep an

open mind as we examine the issues related to privacy and WHOIS, and try to stay focused on our task of looking at the range of questions.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ram Mohan [mailto:rmohan@afilias.info]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 1:20 AM
To: NC-WHOIS (E-mail)
Subject: [nc-whois] Tucows Comments on the Whois TF Final Report

I just ran into this and walked away surprised that the entire report would be desupported due to one component that was clearly planned to be addressed.

-ram

Tucows Comments on the Whois TF Final Report

Posted by ross at February 17, 2003 12:07 PM

To get completely to the point, we don't support the report because it misses its mark.

The brief summary is:

- We reject the report because it decouples the primary issue of privacy from the secondary issues and therefore unduly benefits the trademark, copyright and patent lobbies.
- there are some portions of the report that we support.
- there are some portions of the report that we don't support
- All of these portions must be dealt with in the context of privacy and regard for the customer, not the lawyers.