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Re: Question re prevention of enumeration with DNSSEC (NSEC3, etc.)


From: Ray Bellis <ray () bellis me uk>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 21:50:08 +0100


On 7 May 2022, at 17:37, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:

 I don’t think copyright can enter into it, by dint of the fact that registry data, being purely factual and 
publicly available, cannot be copyrighted.

On March 27, 1991, in a case that transformed the nascent online database publishing industry, the Supreme Court 
ruled unanimously that there is no copyright protection for purely factual products such as a telephone directory 
white pages. 

I wasn’t talking about US law…

Ray

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