Re: [ga] ALAC statement on WHOIS Privacy
Dear Vittorio, IMHO the easiest practical way to achieve what your propose would be to respect the job of every involved party. This is called subsidiarity. There are people specialized in IDs (States), people specialized in payment (Banks), people specialized in documenting (Directories and Web designers), people specialized in registering domain names (Registries). ICANN has inherited Mike Roberts/Joe Sims/Louis Touton Registrar do-all concept which adds complexlity to the problem. The solution you propose goes in the right direction, but within the current mess. IMHO this is possible IF we have a road map telling where we want to land. Or people will build on the transition and add to coùmplexity. This is possible because we basically have to come back to what was done before. Not because older==better but because ICANN went into a wrong direction. FYI here is the approach I am implementing in real life: 1. no more registrars. There are trustees of local or site-oriented sub-communities. Their role is to advise (can be on a fee) both registrants and registry. If they are poor, registrant can change. These are naming consulting service (NCS). 2. the registrant TLD community is to be structured and to share into the TLD Management control. This community will offer a registrant jury to address naming conflicts. 3. the Registry must respects the laws of every country and in being efficient in only keeping authoritative infiormation or the address of the authoritative information. This amounts to domain name, name servers, mail name, quiest redirection (see below) and a bank ID from the payment. Eventually these infromations should be RRs 4. the registrant is free to maintain the information he wants to the public. To ease the automated and intuitive search that information will be accessible through http://domain.name.quiest.tld rerouting calls to the url indicated by the registrant. jfc On 09:47 29/10/03, Vittorio Bertola said: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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