Hello Nik, and NCC-Services-WG,
I fully support your view on this topic. Especially the statements marked in bold. Regards, Kurt Am 10.10.2018 um 12:34 schrieb Nik Soggia: > Il 10/10/18 11:23, ROBINOT Stephane DCPJ SDLC ha scritto: > >> Speaking about sole trader, if i understand well your point and go >> beyond, the name by itself might also be considerated as a personal >> data as it is also a way to identify the person. > > We should be extremely careful about what data is published in the > whois database, because whois is easily and fully accessible by anyone > in the world. > > Whois is all-or-nothing, you can't authenticate, you can't choose what > to disclose, you can't exert any kind of access control, you can't > even identify who queried it. it's PUBLIC! > > Whois is harvested and abused daily NOT for its intended purpose. > That's why you see so many abuse@ noc@ registry@ email addresses! > > You want a list of addresses for your job? Fine, do it. sell it. > keep it secret. We don't care. > Whois is not the right place to FORCE someone to publish any kind of > information if he doesn't want to. > If you really want a legal address, there are more specialized and > regulated databases for that. Cross referencing is not so hard. > Unless you want to be sketchy and want to go around some restriction, > there is no point to make whois worse. > > Regards, >
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