<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you all for your messages regarding IANA committee! I promise to try my best and I count upon your very very valued input.</div><div><br></div><div>And, just to keep the high temperature, some personal comments about the Whois debate:</div>
<div>:-)</div><div>===<br></div><div>There are many tangled issues here. And I have some naive questions to make (and I declare first-hand that I have no knowledge of the national legislation...)</div><div><br></div><div>
1- I think all of us agree in the crucial importance of protecting private data. No one have to know our ideas, your revenues, our religion, our children's names, our health situation, our preferences, ecc. But is the name of a person a private datum per se?</div>
<div><br></div><div>2- In the off-line world, could a owner of a building hide his/her name as a real owner of that house? Or a owner of a business? Or a publisher of a written paper?</div><div><br></div><div>3- When two people get legally married, could them hide this very fact from the rest of the society?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am not trying to make a strong parallel between these situations and the fact that one holds a domain name but where his/her privacy rights begins to apply? Could I have a domain name, and its correspondent site, with contents, transactions, possibility of harm others ecc, and yet keep my identity (or, at least, a way to be contacted) hidden?</div>
<div><br></div><div>The uses and customs in the early Internet days were, in principle, to ever believe in the data one sent to the registry (or, later, to the registrar). But it was necessary to fill out at least one working e-mail address and the presumable name of the domain's owner... Of course one could lie when filling the form but what we saw most of the times was that in the vast majority of cases the data were correctly supplied. Even because it was in his/her best interest to keep a way to be contacted in case of need.</div>
<div>===</div><div class="gmail_extra">just my 2 rotten cents</div><div class="gmail_extra">best!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">demi</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>