If WHOIS interests you for whatever reason, then yes, please do get involved with the policy processes.
In specific response this email ... > PLEASE JOIN THE ICANN GROUP and help us fight back against people who > are fighting in favour of crime. Utter bovine droppings. No-one on the ICANN RDS/PDP WG is fighting in favour of "crime". There are a number of participants (I'm part of the working group) who want to see the legislation on data-protection (_law_ being essentially the opposite of _crime_) being correctly applied, as whois/rde/various-other-icann-polices are all in breach. So turning it off (which is an actual solution to at least 4 working groups and expert working group reports concluding it's basically not fit for any purpose, although discontinuance is unbelievably unlikely) would stop millions of crimes/criminals per day :p > They want to create privacy by > forcing us to delete data we have collected from public sources. For a definition of "collected" which is stolen illegally in breach of the T&C of the services you abused to obtain that data ... > And for the registrars, it appears they are intent on saving money as they > don’t want to deal with the complaints or maintenance of whois. It's nothing to do with Registrars saving money at all, as the costs of all these things get passed on to the Registrants. There are significant system/staff/regulatory costs relating to the current whois policies, all of which is ultimately charged to the domain holders > They seem > uninterested in the fact that their small savings will cause huge losses for > someone else. Is that referring to the possibility that companies who make their business parsing/trawling/storing whois data may not be able to sell the ~150 million registrant names/addresses/phone-numbers/emails for their own commercial gain on one suggested gated-access methodology ? So yes, benefitting 150 million people rather than being concerned about the financials of ~20 organisations, might be a possible outcome. Rob --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
