John, I know you know better than to remove the attribution of the quote
you're replying to ...
On 03/25/2017 05:20 PM, John Levine wrote:
When it comes to privacy I'm much more concerned about the most
vulnerable folks not being required to publish their residential address
and personal phone number in whois. Those actually can be serious
threats, up to and including physical harm for some.
Of course. But the fraction of domains registered by natural people
is quite low.
I don't care how low it is. A huge part of ICANN's charter is to provide
protection to consumers, and that includes individual registrants.
And, of course, the claim that you need your own second
level domain to communicate on the Internet is ridiculous.
I haven't heard anyone claim that. However, I want to make sure that we
remove all the barriers we can to make it *possible*. particularly for
those who are most vulnerable.
As I've said many times before, nobody objects to privacy protection
for names that natural people use for non-commercial purposes.
Actually, some folks do.
The other 99% of of the names, though ...
I don't have any problem with anyone having privacy that wants it. (See
my response regarding commercial entities' need for privacy on another
post.)
The thing that the NO PRIVACY! people seem to object to is not being
able to reach the real registrant behind the private registration in a
timely manner. That's a simple problem to solve, allow the registrars,
who contract with ICANN, to continue to offer these services; but
provide reasonable requirements to go with them.
As I pointed out in the other message, the alternative to this is the
creation of domain holding companies that register domains on behalf of
those who want privacy. Those entities will be completely outside of the
ICANN process, and there will not be anything ICANN, or anyone else,
will be able to do to stop them.
Doug
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