RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > Aren't there other people, people here even, that are interested in
keeping some level of whois available to the public - besides those big
scary black helicopter types that are only trying to track your Internet
doings?! 

I'm also uncomfortable with the stereotypes in this story which,
unfortunately, follow from the interest groups formally represented at
the GNSO. 

The fight is more than just a bit illogical. The interests of
intellectual property holders and other privacy opponents may be impeded
by an OPOC setup, but it's already impeded by private registration. No
process to get information from a private registration is going to be
any easier than the OPOC, so the fact that the process won't be
standardized means that the incentive for disparate private
registrations to develop is greater. Seems like a bigger mess to me.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com

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