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

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:27 a.m. 19/05/2007, you wrote:
> 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.

As an addition to Escrow and as an alternative to demanding it for 
sensitive private data, I think that the RAA should require from registrars 
that they, upon request, issue certificates of ownership to 
all  registrants who wish to protect both their privacy and their domain name.
Forge- resistant certificates involve some cost, but registrars could make 
it into a supplementary business by being allowed to charge a small fee.




-joop-