Re: [ga] Is it true?

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is no reason why any personal contact details should be obligatory for the WHOIS. Providing the Registry or Registrar hold these details securely, and the details can therefore be obtained if legally justified, it should be entirely up to the registrant to decide how much or how little of their private details actually goes public.

What compelling reason can anyone at ICANN offer for insisting that a registrant's home address, phone number etc should be made available to the rest of the world?

Here in the UK we can CHOOSE if we want our phone numbers and address listed in the public directory. (The phone company itself still has our details.)

Why shouldn't the same apply if we Brits want to register a domain name?

Why should the US Government or its quango ICANN have *ANY* say over that?

Yrs,

Richard H
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Hugh Dierker 
  To: ga 
  Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 3:52 PM
  Subject: [ga] Is it true?


  Cade and some other interested parties put together a private confab - conspiracy meeting in D.C. with USGov officiates to expand the disclosure requirements of WHOIS.
  Wow just like a novel!

  e


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