Hi, On May 14, 2013, at 11:02 AM, David Farmer <[email protected]> wrote: > The third goal you refer to focuses on the need for "accurate registration > information ... in order to meet a variety of operational requirements." I > believe this to be a valid technical concerns of the IETF, it is difficult to > imagine how a global Internet can technically function without this. So, I > think it is important for it to remain in the draft.
I would also point out that the third goal makes no statement on whether the registration data is publicly available or not. > However, issues of privacy, law enforcement access, and a myriad of other > extremely important issues related to the Internet Numbers Registry System > are outside the technical and operational scope of the IETF. The whole point > of the draft is to document the issues that are properly the concern of the > IETF towards the Internet Numbers Registry System and to pass the rest of it > to the multi-stakeholder environment of ICANN and the RIRs to hash it out. Exactly. Section 4 notes that provision of "public WHOIS" has been a technical consideration and that "it may be necessary for the Internet community to examine these and related technical and operational considerations and how best to meet them." Regards, -drc
