Re: [ga] scammers using whois privacy

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all,

  Also a good point and idea here Karl, although not a new one.  Indeed,
we advocated that ONLY the registrant or his/her agent should be able
to determine and modify what information is available for his/her Domain
name in Whois before some years ago.  However, than ICANN Bod and
staff members disagreed with the idea for reasons that to this day have
not been well delineated and certainly not well justified.

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> Paul Stahura wrote:
> > Jeff, it occurs to me, for your purpose of whois, both an email address
> > and phone number would not be required to be publicly displayed either.
> > Just a means of contacting the registrant.  For example, a web form
> > could be presented that sends the form contents to the (hidden) email
> > address, or a skype ID (or some other anonymous ID) could be displayed
> > which would connect to the (hidden) phone number when making the skype
> > call.
>
> You know, if slightly extended your idea could be extended into something very,
> very powerful, particularly if we imagine whois access in the context of
> HTTP/HTML browser with a human driver rather than a raw TCP stream from any
> arbitrary program, possibly one without a human involved.
>
> I've been working on some Python code this afternoon, some of which involves
> embedding closures into objects ... And it struck me that what you are
> suggesting as akin to a Python/Scheme closure...
>
> Consider how in ENUM we are embedding regular expressions into DNS records.
>
> Imagine if we allowed users to include in their "whois" data a program that,
> when executed, would do whatever the user wants (within limits.)
>
> Thus, for example, my "whois" program might be
>
> #/bin/env Python
> print """
> Karl Auerbach
> karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> etc etc
> """
>
> But a more complex one could send back contact url, e.g.
> sip:whois-contact@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>                 --karl--

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