Hi, I’m out of office till 22 August. Any RIPE Labs related queries can be sent to [email protected] and one of my colleagues will get back to you.
Cheers, Alun On 22 Aug 2022, at 07:48, Alun Davies via db-wg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I’m out of office till 22 August. Any RIPE Labs related queries can be sent > to [email protected] and one of my colleagues will get back to you. > > Cheers, > Alun > > On 4 Aug 2022, at 22:49, William Sylvester via db-wg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Database Working Group Members, > > The four-week discussion phase for the policy proposal "2022-01 Personal data > in the RIPE Database" ended on 15 July. In agreement with the proposer, we > have decided tomove the proposal into the Review Phase but postponed its > start to the end of August. This was done keeping in mind that the upcoming > vacation period might prevent participation in the discussion and the timely > publication of the RIPE NCC Impact Analysis. > > Please note that the RIPE Database WG Co-Chair Denis Walker is the author of > this policy proposal, hence he is not taking part in the decisions regarding > consensus. > > The RIPE NCC Policy Officer will announce the start of the Review phase > together with the publication of the policy draft and impact analysis. > > For reference, here’s a short summary of the discussion so far: > > Ronald Guilmette posted many messages strongly opposing the proposal, > advocating instead for the accurate verification of WHOIS data and for not > publishing personal data for privacy reasons only in special legitimate > cases. > His main points of disagreement were: > a) The transparency of the database would suffer, affecting LEAs’ and > researchers’ work. > b) The postal address is managed solely by the resource holder and not by > the RIPE NCC. > c) The postal address can already be concealed using, e.g., a PO box. > d) Only a minority in the community is asking for the postal address not > to be published, which doesn’t justify the effort and cost of implementation. > e) More contact details might fall under the same new proposed rule in the > future. > f) Accepting the proposal would change the historical practice of the RIPE > Database. > g) There is no legal basis for the proposed changes. > > The proposer addressed the concerns above as follows: > a) The transparency achieved is questionable if it's based on unverified > data. > b) End Users are not always aware that their address has been entered in > the RIPE Database by the LIR. > c) Addresses like those of PO boxes do not help LEAs orresearchers. > d) Implementation could be supported using the existing ARCs. > e) There is no mention of further changes in the proposal. > f) Historical practice should not be treated as a requirement. > g) Legal aspects should be further clarified by the RIPE NCC legal team. > > Niels Bakker supported the proposal as it would allow the RIPE NCC to offer a > way to prevent LIRs from entering End Users’ personal data in the RIPE > Database. > > Some ideas for modifying the proposal were posted: > - Ronald Guilmette suggested to address the verification of contact details > entered in the RIPE Database with a separate proposal that he would support, > provided that the implementation challenges, costs, and consequences for > non-compliance would be clarified. This would split the existing proposal in > two: VERIFICATION and REDACTION. > > - Sylvain Baya, contributed to the discussion and also postedlinks to RIPE > Labs articles published in the past about the proposal’s topics. He supported > Ronald’s suggestion of allowing the RIPE NCC to accept the requests of > exemption from publication of the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) > made by natural persons who need Internet resources and can legally > demonstrate their privacy requirement. Sylvain also suggested splitting the > subject into a set of proposals: one about the general principles for > processing data within the RIPE Database, one about *insertion* of PII within > the RIPE Database, one about the *query* of the RIPE Database and one for > handling the current PII present into the RIPE Database. > > - Leo Vegoda suggested clearly separating the sections defining a principle > from those defining its implementation. > > - Cynthia Revström supported the proposal and suggested rewording the > proposal clarifying that entering the full home address is never justified > and that the default should be no address at all for individuals. The > assumption should be that any address an individual is operating from is a > home address unless the individual themselves clearly say that it is not. > > Please let me know if you have any questions. > > Kind regards, > > > William > db-wg Co-Chair > -- > > 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 > -- > > 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
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