On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:38, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
Nobody suggested to kill the whois protocol, just the badly written
and obsolete RFCs which were requiring violations of various european
laws regarding privacy. Neither ICANN or IETF should specify privacy
policy for a ccTLD.
I believe Frank's concern is that he wants the ability to refuse
services to sites who have not published accurate contact information
through whois. If a ccTLD were to, for instance, refuse to publish any
contact information (even if the registrant *wanted* it published) this
makes his life difficult.
I'd hope that European privacy laws would be flexible enough to allow
for voluntary publication of contact information by TLD operators.
- Bill
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