The APAC community has APNIC Prop-162 WHOIS Privacy up for discussion, which 
effectively makes person objects in WHOIS redundant.

https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/proposals/prop-162/

The idea is to remove (or hide) all PII from WHOIS, as well as other 
unnecessary information such as street addresses, fax numbers, etc.

Regards,
Christopher Hawker

Sent from my iPhone

On 22 Jul 2025, at 8:50 am, John Curran via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:

On Jul 21, 2025, at 5:02 PM, Mel Beckman via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> 
wrote:
...
Let us hope the slippery slope of anonymizing registration data doesn’t creep 
into ARIN!

Rather unlikely to occur, as organizations using ARIN’s registry services are 
informed that they are public in nature – as benefitting their role in 
supporting global Internet operations – and take appropriate precautions when 
collecting and entering personally identifiable information (e.g. personal 
phones numbers, email address, residential home addresses); more specifically, 
organizations are to either obtain consent of the individual or use a more 
appropriate form of contact information (e.g. business number, business email, 
business street address.)

Thanks,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers

P.S.  This is all covered in ARIN’s privacy policy 
<https://www.arin.net/about/privacy/>;  excerpts from relevant section(s):

ARIN collects several types of information through the use of our Websites, 
Services, and related interactions with individuals:
“Personal Data” is information that can be used to identify an individual, such 
as their given name, postal address, telephone number, fax numbers, or email 
addresses. …
Note that some of these ARIN Services (e.g. our public mailing lists, public 
wikis, or other public forums, participation in our public meetings, etc.) make 
the information that you provide public and therefore you are responsible for 
careful consideration of whether to use these Services.
“Organizational Data” is information supplied to ARIN that pertains to the 
organizations that are authorized to use our Services. The primary data 
elements that ARIN collects in the normal course of its activities are routine 
business contact information – organization name, street address, and 
organizational contact information (i.e. department name or other point of 
contact in the organization, including business email address and telephone 
number.)
Organizations should only provide Personal Data (of their staff, customers, or 
others) to ARIN with the consent of the affected individuals, as organizations 
supplying such information to ARIN are responsible for its ongoing accurate 
maintenance. …  Note that many of ARIN’s Services are registry services or 
discussion forums that by their inherent nature involve the publication of 
information either publicly or to an identified community in accordance with 
specific policies of the registry.



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