Re: Editorial: ICANN's WHOIS Policy Shift Would Be CriminalNe gligence

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:39:25 PDT, John LaCour said:
> One of the potential issues with hiding WHOIS info is that it prevents
> domain host owner/operators from being contacted in the case that
> their legitimate internet presence is being used malciously by a 3rd
> party.

A small technical point here - in that particular case, you don't really
care if you're contacting the owner/operators.  What you care about is that
you're contacting somebody with the ability and authority to get something
done about the situation.

Of course, this *does* get murky when you're asking yourself "Do I contact
the listed person because their box is compromised, or do I *not* do so because
I suspect the box is *not* compromised and the listed person is blackhat?".

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