-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Internet Governance Project Blog.
[snip] The ICANN Working Group that was trying to reconcile data protection and privacy principles with the domain name systems legacy Whois directory, which publishes the name and full contact details of all domain name registrants, was finished today. Finished off might be a better term. Despite flirting with the kind of compromises and reforms that might actually reconcile privacy rights with identification needs, in the final weeks of the process trust and agreement among the parties broke down completely. The WG report [.pdf] has zero chance of gaining the 2/3 majority required to become an approved policy of the GNSO Council in its current form. It is unclear what the Board will make of it. The battle between human rights advocates, who want to shield certain kinds of data from indiscriminate public access, and corporate and law enforcement interests, who want to use the Whois service as a free, open-access method for identification and surveillance of Internet users, has been going on for seven years now. [snip] More: http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2007/8/22/3174023.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFGzHkrq1pz9mNUZTMRAmlJAJ9spesUpXdBNXVU0gv1PullcXoaBwCg2v73 nx+YE+h+WxPAsi0FEamNDHI= =Ou0l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
