William and all,
William X. Walsh wrote:
> On 11-Feb-99 Karl Auerbach wrote:
> > On the other hand, the database is a *big* privacy intrusion.
> >
> > And, as I've been indicating, it was paid for and authorized via the
> > Cooperative Agreement and is hence subject to the Privacy Act of 1974.
> >
> > As such, you, or anybody, should not have been obtaining access unless you
> > had entered into an undertaking to protect the privacy of the data as
> > required by the act (and which neither NSF nor NTIA seem to be bothering
> > to require of NSI.)
>
> Sorry Karl, but this doesn't wash either.
>
> Property ownership information is not protected, and you can't own property
> without being included in the publicly accessible databases.
Well I think you need to do some research again William as this assertion
is incorrect and also does not apply globally as well. For instance I own
allot of property that is NOT publicly accessible from any public database
to my knowledge.
>
>
> Why are domain names any different?
Domain Names may or may not be different. There is not existing legal
structure that requires or restricts Domain Names from, of inclusive of
any public access that I am aware of to date. Currently NSI controls the
largest of these Domain Name databases, as as such has the right to
protect that data to whatever extent it chooses to do so and is doing so
currently to it's own desired extent as such.
>
>
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> E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 10-Feb-99
> Time: 16:50:20
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> "We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes
> of lawyers, hungry as locusts."
> - Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977
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