[ga] Is whois, IPv6, and Enum a contributer? - Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act Becomes Law

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

  See:
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=23901861

(16 July 2004)
President Bush has signed the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act,
which increases the federal penalty for identity theft from three to
five years; it also adds five years to prison sentences for those
convicted of using another person's identity to commit terrorism.  In
addition, the act makes aggravated identity theft a crime; people
convicted of using others' identity in the commission of a felony will
have an additional two years tacked on to their sentences.

This legislation had been slow in coming but it is better late than
never..

 Are Whois, IPv6, and Enum Protocols potential culprits to creating and
aiding in the increase in Identity theft?  Given the current standards
track
on Enum it would defiantly seem so as "User Enum" assigned numbers
are made publicly viewable in conjunction with Email address, name
and personal address.  Similar exposure for IPv6 with auto install, and
allocation policies recently under discussion at ARIN, RIPE, and Apnic.
and many have already noticed that due to the rehashing of Whois
policy decidedly forced by the ICANN BoD and staff, domain name
holders/stakeholders are also now more exposed to indetity theft than
ever before.

  The current errant attitude being displayed and has been displayed for

some 2 years now by ICANN, the IETF, and other organizations that
are anti privacy bigots have now given terrorists a new set of access
points by which stakeholders can and likely will be endangered by.

Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
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