In message <CAKvLzuFYcfarXvGLesYTNU1S8dviL=ke4Khv0pLy=hxg9p4...@mail.gmail.com> denis walker <[email protected]> wrote:
>I was getting comments from people that LEAs need addresses for their >investigations, but also people had serious privacy concerns about >publishing their home address in the database... Who, exactly? Just because you found one small-fry member who has elected to endorse this abject silliness, that hardly constitutes any kind of great outpouring of support, nor does it constitute a persuasive mandate to change the way things have been done for 20+ years worth of precedent, or the way that things are still being done in every other region. You folks in Europe often express amazement that we here in the U.S. are nowadays having daily mass shooting incidents. You wonder how our politics ever got to be so insane. The reason is that a relatively small by noisy minority consistantly drive the public debate about guns in this country. I hope that the same political dynamic will not also drive discussions regarding the historical openness of the RIPE data base, a data base that is supposed to be an open public resource. The fact that a single member insists on their supposed "rights" to BOTH (a) have IP addresses AND also (b) timidly hide out in a virtual cave should not be the sole basis for guiding policy choices that affect an entire planet's worth of Internet users. Regards, rfg P.S. This is NOT much ado about nothing. I sense the beginning of a slippery slope. Today it's mailing addresses, "just" of natural persons, or so we are told. Tomorrow it's phone numbers and names and email addresses. Once one adopts the position that privacy is everything and transparency is nothing, then you might as well just put the whole RIPE WHOIS data base behind a paywall and only allow law enforcement access to it, and even then, only if they get a warrant first. I'm sure that such an outcome would suit certain people just fine. I am not one of them. -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, please visit: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/db-wg
