[74385] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: APNIC Privacy of customer assignment records - implementation update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Thu Sep 23 18:12:19 2004
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:06:51 -0700
From: Matt Ghali <mghali@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Matt Ghali <mghali@gmail.com>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:56:42 -0400, Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org> wrote:
> The proposal (which comes from APNIC members, not from APNIC staff)
> concerns non-portable addresses assigned to end-users. I don't know
> about anybody else, but I've never had any luck getting a response from
> people in that category anyway; it's invariably the upstream ISPs who
> respond (if anybody does), and there is no suggestion that their
> contact details will be able to be hidden.
>
> So what difference will it make?
Effectively none.
APNIC has always served out unverified and obvious garbage from their
whois servers.
What I find offensive is that they are now codifying this lack of
cooperation, and tacit complicity with spammers and other anonymous
miscreants as official policy.
matto
