[48886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN requirement for "information refreshing"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (amar)
Wed Jun 19 08:50:27 2002
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:54:27 +0200
From: amar <amar@telia.net>
To: Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>
Cc: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@fugawi.net>,
Jake Baillie <jake@priva.com>,
"Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>, nanog@merit.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Richard Forno wrote:
>
> Is funny that both ICANN and law enforcement are trying to clean up whois
> information to facilitate investigative capabilities. What a crock.
>
> On paper, and in theory, having 'clean' whois data is nice, and helpful for
> tech problems, which is the reason I think why it's there in the first
> place.
>
> As if nobody thought about having a 'front man' doing a registration, or
> even that the Registrars will be able to truly implement such data-integrity
> protocols, among any other ways to muck with this info.
>
> I mean, garbage in, garbage out. Are they going to go door-to-door like
> censustakers to verify this info?
>
> The reality is it will never work, and besides - any smart criminal will
> simply use another domain name, or not even USE a domain name.....a
> power-user computer criminal shouldn't have problems remembering a few IP
> addys. If they can't, they're stupid and deserve to be caught.
Well, rfc-ignorant.org have a different view:
http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-whois.html
-- amar
