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

[Demi Getschko]

Thank you all for your messages regarding IANA committee! I promise to try
my best and I count upon your very very valued input.

And, just to keep the high temperature, some personal comments about the
Whois debate:
:-)
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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...)

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?

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?

3- When two people get legally married, could them hide this very fact from
the rest of the society?

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?

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.
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just my 2 rotten cents
best!
demi
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