Subject: GA-DIGEST V1 #1547
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GA-DIGEST          Tuesday, January 7 2003          Volume 01 : Number 1547

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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:24:21 +0100
From: Thomas Roessler <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] Reminder: WHOIS comment period running out.

Just a reminder: The extended comment period for the WHOIS Task
Force's report (23 December - 9 January) is about to run out.  If
you want to submit any comments on the report, please send them to
[email-masked].

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Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 02:47:38 -0800
From: Jeff Williams <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] Marilyn Cades post regarding Bruce Tonkins WHOIS Recomendations - Privacy problems again?

All former DNSO GA members or other interested parties,

  The following was posted to the WHOIS Task force list
which is closed to stakeholders/users to respond to directly.
From Marilyn Cade:
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-whois/Arc00/msg00805.html
Followed directly by the following regarding accuracy of Whois
information also from Marilyn Cade:
 http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-whois/Arc00/msg00805.html
Which she claims is to be used as a basis for the conference call
on Jan 7th See also from Marily Cade:
 http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-whois/Arc00/msg00807.html

  Seems to me that if such proposed implementations that would
dramatically effect registrants/stakeholders that would and already
has impacted privacy and personal security of registrants via
stalking ect. from Whois data, we as stakeholders/users should,
have a voice and a vote on such proposals in order to protect our
privacy and personal safety.   ????

  BTW, haven't we seen all this before?

Regards,

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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 02:15:01 -0800 (PST)
From: George Kirikos <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] WHOIS accuracy, and name deletions

Hello,

Folks might not be aware of discussions going on in the WHOIS accuracy
task force of the DNSO/GNSO. See:

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-whois/Arc00/msg00806.html

for instance. 

Am I the only one who is concerned that a legitimately held name might
be deleted due to a simple failure to respond within 15 days? Given the
amount of spam out there (it's easy to accidentally skip over an email,
thinking it was spam), and lack of guaranteed delivery of email, I
think that this is a very dangerous and poorly thought-out proposal for
legitimate domain holders, especially those with small staffs (or
self-employed). I am all for WHOIS accuracy (it helps to promote
responsible internet usage, and reduce abuse behaviour), but there
needs to be some balance in that proposal. If someone goes on holidays
for 3 weeks, or misses an email, conceivably they could find all their
valuable domains are no longer held by them!

I would hope that OpenSRS and other leading registrars would implement
a "white-list" (where domain WHOIS is permanently marked as "accurate",
or if not permanent than for long intervals of months, not days) of
protected names, or other mechanisms to ensure that legitimate and
correct domains are not hijacked through misuse of this policy, and
that domains are protected. "Rogue" domain holders, with obviously fake
WHOIS should be pursued, but legitimate holders should be protected.

If AT&T, AOL, Google or another elite company moves its offices, and
happens to not update their WHOIS records for a few weeks, should they
lose *all* of their domains? Obviously not...they have the lawyers (and
trademarks) to ensure that they'd get back any domain name that their
registrar deletes, but smaller companies do not! 

Every summer, a lot of people move to new homes or apartments -- should
they all be rushing to change their WHOIS the exact moment they move,
or fear losing all their domain names?

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.kirikos.com/
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 03:42:31 -0800 (PST)
From: George Kirikos <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] WHOIS comments archive -- not updating?

According to:

http://www.dnso.org/dnso/dnsocomments/comments-whois/Arc00/

there have been no comments received since August? (I sent in a comment
a few minutes ago, and it doesn't appear)

Is there another archive/link which is up to date, or is that
mailinglist-to-web utility broken again?

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.kirikos.com/
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