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

[Victor Ndonnang]

Dear Demi,

 

Thank you for your comments. And once again congratulations for your selection to represent the ISOC Community to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group. I wish you all the best and I will do my best to support you in that work when needed.

 

The WHOIS debate is definitely not a “zero-sum game”. There is a need to balance and setup principles to deal with that issue. Just to add another consideration to the discussion…While agreeing with you that the domain holder must remain easily reachable when there is an issue with his domain name or when the use of the domain name harms others, I think that nobody would like to walk down the street with his name, address, phone number and email address “pasted” on his back. In other hand, I acknowledge that in the information society where we are living, people can get those information otherwise.

The WHOIS is a useful tool but as any other tool, It can be used for good or bad…

Best regards,

Victor.

 

 

 

 

De : Chapter-delegates [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] De la part de Demi Getschko
Envoyé : Monday, July 7, 2014 7:59 PM
À : Chapter Delegates
Objet : Re: [Chapter-delegates] Internet Society Appointments to theNTIA/IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group

 

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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