Re: [ga] Escrowing Proxy Data instead of True Registrant Data

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny Younger wrote:

> "4.1.4 Registrars ...

> A failure to escrow the data pertaining to the "real
> registrant" (by making it optional) is a horribly bad
> idea.  

Danny, on this point I tend to differ.

If, and please note the "if", customers are made aware in advance of the 
situation and chose to value their privacy over other concerns than it 
make sense for the registration system to honor that choice.

Personally, my own sense is that the entire escrow mechanism is the 
wrong approach.

I prefer that registrars and registries be given the choice to pick 
their own business-record survival strategies.  But they must make a 
choice, and let the consumers know what it is so that the consumers can 
make the choice whether to buy into that registry or registrar.

Yes, there is a problem for the people who are already locked in, as are 
many of us who are in .com since before there was even a Network 
Solutions, much less a Verisign or ICANN.  We had no choice to make back 
then.

		--karl--