RE: [ga] RE: Whois more in detail

["Roberto Gaetano" <roberto@xxxxxxxxx>]

Karl,

> 
> This is a quasi-business license.  It does much of what is 
> wanted.  And it requires no governmental body or single agency.
> 
> And it does not expose the privacy of those who are not 
> sufficiently engaged in commerce on the net as to require an 
> SSL certificate.
> 
> The difficulty is that SSL certs are not inexpensive.


Indeed, this is the problem, but I believe that this is the good direction.
I don't think that the cost of the certification is justified by the raw
costs of the operation, it is a market value. And probably, if some form of
certification is established for websites, the large numbers of potential
customers of this service could justify a substantially lower price.

For sure if we had this form of certification for ecommerce websites, or a
similar one, the need for having detailed information in the WhoIs would be
dramatically reduced. The problem is that this approach has to come as a
self-organizing process from the ecommerce business community, and is not an
area in which ICANN has, nor should have, any influence.

Cheers,
Roberto