WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Internet Governance Project Blog.

[snip]

The ICANN Working Group that was trying to reconcile data protection and
privacy principles with the domain name system’s legacy Whois directory,
which publishes the name and full contact details of all domain name
registrants, was finished today.

“Finished off” might be a better term. Despite flirting with the kind
of compromises and reforms that might actually reconcile privacy rights
with identification needs, in the final weeks of the process trust and
agreement among the parties broke down completely. The WG report [.pdf] has
zero chance of gaining the 2/3 majority required to become an approved
policy of the GNSO Council in its current form. It is unclear what the
Board will make of it.

The battle between human rights advocates, who want to shield certain kinds
of data from indiscriminate public access, and corporate and law
enforcement interests, who want to use the Whois service as a free,
open-access method for identification and surveillance of Internet users,
has been going on for seven years now.

[snip]

More:
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2007/8/22/3174023.html

- - ferg

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