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Donald Langenberg
- posted on 2000-10-01 20:01:35
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Yes, I think so.
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Harris Miller
- posted on 2000-09-29 11:52:45
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Keeping WHOIS current is a valuable resource for the Net community and should be be an ICANN policy subject to appropriate privacy protections.
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Emerson Tiller, J.D., Ph.D.
- posted on 2000-09-28 18:24:00
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Yes. Setting baseline rules such as this one is a proper function for ICANN. This is a different question as to who should have access to this and other information. Privacy issues come into play when personal information is displayed. But I don't think that the expiration date of a domain name is personal enough to merit special access rules. That information should be public and up to date.
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Barbara Simons
- posted on 2000-09-28 18:21:48
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There are situations involving security of the Internet in which it is important to be able to obtain contact information quickly. Therefore, WHOIS information should be kept up to date, and if necessary ICANN should pressure registrars to do so. But privacy is also very important. I would like to see requirements added that include authentication, logging of accesses to the WHOIS database, and notification of the person whose record has been accessed.
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Lyman Chapin
- posted on 2000-09-28 17:35:27
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ICANN policy should place as few requirements on registrars as possible, allowing competition among registrars to sort out quality of service issues such as the currency of WHOIS information. Access to WHOIS information involves a balance between the privacy rights of registrants and the values of openness and transparency, which may be decided differently for different TLD registries, so I don't believe a general ICANN policy is appropriate in this case.
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Lawrence Lessig
- posted on 2000-09-28 01:30:56
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If there were more competition among registries and registrars, ICANN would have no need to have such a policy. But until there is such competition, subject to privacy objections, this may well be needed.
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