[Chapter-delegates] Internet Society Appointments to theNTIA/IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 7 July 2014 09:45, Christian de Larrinaga <cdel at firsthand.net> wrote:

> This is a curious argument. I've seen it on AT Large lists as if it
> actually means something useful.
>


No need to insult points of view with which you disagree.


As a registrant I have exactly the same interest in keeping my whois
> registration record in working order because I want to know if there is a
> problem and have a public point of contact for people to reach me.
>


And a great many other registrants, myself included, share that view.
However the sentiment is not universal, which is where the differences
arise.

There is, for instance, a significant component of the Non-Commercial Users
Constituency within ICANN's GNSO that believes that a registrant has the
right to keep their contact data private and hidden from you. They do not
share your interest in having accessible, working contact information.



>  As a user I want to be able to reach the domain administrator so I can
> report problems and cross reference registration data.
>

On that we absolutely agree.

But what if that other domain administrators do not want to be reached?
What if they don't care about the kind of problems you would report? What
if they are deliberately trying to avoid you?

The fact remains that there is a significant component of the world of
registrants that cares more about their privacy than your ability to
contact them. There are other registrants who want to typo-squat or use
fraudulent domain names so they can pretend they're the Red Cross and
solicit funds from you. It is highly unlikely that these I suggest that the
interests of those registrants absolutely do not coincide with yours as a
user.

It also does not appear that you are domainer, who buys and sells domains
primarily as commodity for a significant source of income, The subset of
registrants who share that characteristic have different interests in ICANN
than you or I, for reasons that have nothing to do with accurate contact
information,

In ICANN At-Large we have identified quite a few issues -- some of them
significant -- where the interests of end users and registrants are not
aligned. These differences are indeed relevant to some, and indicate that
registrants cannot be thought to be surrogates for end users in matters
related to ICANN accountability.

- Evan
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