Bill and all,
Bill, I am a bit dismayed by your comment here. BUt I believe I understand
you feeling and motivation. I am not saying that the Registrar industry or
NSI is not to some degree culpable with respect to Whose restriction
of creation date ( Subject line), or the data associated with a domain name
registration all together. I am saying that there is ALSO a minimal
responsibility
of the Registrant as well.
Your stated example of "So what about Veronica and her Dad? And all the
other little kiddies and Moms & Pops?", my answer is that those Moms & Pops
can and should educate themselves on what they should a need to know with
respect to registering a Domain Name for their children. I have two little
girls, as you know, one of them has her own Domain Name that she
registered through her Trust fund for a little business that she and her
Partner own, though as you know I am legally responsible for my
daughters ownership. I made sure that my daughter and her Partner
were aware of what they needed to know from the beginning. Other
parents should do the same thing as well. This can be done relatively
inexpensively.
Now, as to NSI and other registrants/ISP's should have or take some steps
if they are going to provide a good service, some basic protection services
with respect to Whois data, should they be the registrar of a DN for a
potential
Registrant/Customer. This should also apply to the potential possibility
of transfer of that DN to another ISP or Registrar with respect to Whois
Data. But to put all of this responsibility on NSI as Susan did in her
comments is as a lawyer, you know fundamentally WRONG, and legally
indefensible, as it should be.
I hope this makes my point a bit clearer.... >;)
Bill Lovell wrote:
> At 03:12 AM 2/27/99 +0000, you wrote:
>
> Registrant, registrant, registrant. I didn't have the vaguest notion when I
> registered my site untlil I clicked onto a WHOIS that worked, and I'm not
> the dumbest thing that ever came down the pike. So what about
> Veronica and her Dad? And all the other little kiddies and Moms &
> Pops? Is this to be a service oriented internet or is it just to be a
> playground for the technically sophisticated?
>
> William S. (Give us a break, Jeff!) Lovell, B.A., B.S., M.S., J.D., PhD
> >
> >> Of course, but this is not a NSI problem, now is it. Nor is NSI or
> >necessarily
> >the regitrar/ISP whom handled the registration necessarily responsible or
> >does NSI's whois registration date restriction at fault either.
> >>
> > You CAN'T ELIMINATE this element entirely. You can only reduce it at
> >best. However you can go way too far in attempts to reduce it
> >however. Any policies to reduce this problem should focus on the
> >Registrant.
> >
> >
> > So this problem seems to reside with the registrant.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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