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RE: Is WHOIS going to go away?
From: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund () medline com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:31:20 +0000
I don't see why there should not be a way to know who is publishing data on the Internet. In almost all other forms of communication, there is some accountability for the origination of information. Newspaper publishers are known, radio stations are usually licensed and publicly known, television is licensed as well. Your phone and Internet traffic is available to the government and law enforcement. People need to be held legally accountable for the information they present to the public otherwise you would have absolutely no recourse in the event that you were slandered, scammed, or otherwise harmed by this information. People being scared of their government is a real thing, however it is not up to the Internet to protect people from their own governments, that is a political problem not a technical one. Always think of the negative side of the argument. If a website was distributing unauthorized compromising photos of your children would you want them to be completely anonymous? Think of how aggravated we all are with the spam we receive every day and how much you like spoofed caller ID data when you talk about anonymity. Publishing information for access by the entire public should have some sort of accountability with it. When you get into the business of "protecting" people from their own "oppressive" governments, you are also protecting "enemies and criminals" from another perspective. Most all nation states would have the ability to track the communications to their source in any case so all you are really doing is protecting the data from the public. It would appear to me that the ICANN proposal is nothing more than a means to monetize what used to be public data. Why should Google have all the fun? Steven Naslund Chicago IL -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of bzs () theworld com Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 2:11 PM To: Tei Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? On April 20, 2018 at 12:03 oscar.vives () gmail com (Tei) wrote:
Maybe a good balance for whois is to include organization information so I know where a website is hosted, but not personal information, so I can't show in their house and steal their dog. I feel uneasy about having my phone available to literally everyone on the internet.
There are various privacy options available when one registers a domain, generally a matter of checking a box and usually free.
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Current thread:
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?, (continued)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? bzs (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 24)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? John Levine (Apr 24)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Apr 19)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? bzs (Apr 19)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Tei (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Christian de Larrinaga (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? bzs (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Rubens Kuhl (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? bzs (Apr 20)
- RE: Is WHOIS going to go away? Naslund, Steve (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Apr 20)
- RE: Is WHOIS going to go away? Keith Medcalf (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? bzs (Apr 21)
- RE: Is WHOIS going to go away? Keith Medcalf (Apr 21)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Lyndon Nerenberg (Apr 21)
- RE: Is WHOIS going to go away? Naslund, Steve (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Apr 20)
- Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Brian Kantor (Apr 20)
- RE: Is WHOIS going to go away? Naslund, Steve (Apr 20)