[48893] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN requirement for "information refreshing"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Wed Jun 19 10:52:59 2002
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@fugawi.net>,
"Richard Forno" <rforno@infowarrior.org>
Cc: "Jake Baillie" <jake@priva.com>,
"Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>, <nanog@merit.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:52:46 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I'm not really sure why law enforcement is trying to clean it up
> as they don't really need it. Transactional records are easily
> subpoena'd and carriers/hosters/providers are duty bound to provide
> the information. A WHOIS record is junk for the most part.
In the US maybe, but whois records are visible in other jurisdictions, where
law enforcement may not have easy access to these records.
Peter
