<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As Alan notes, this is one person's view of the context, seen from a rather particular point of view.  Facts are included and excluded quite selectively.  It's particularly silly to call those who disagree with the author's point of view "privacy opponents" -- just as it would be silly to call those who agree with the author's point of view "privacy fetishists" or "privacy maximalists."  But I guess a story needs good guys and bad guys need to be called things like "privacy opponents" and "copyright maximalists."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The blog post says nothing about the legitimate positive uses that WHOIS data is put to, but only mentions the inappropriate uses.  It then makes very simplistic statements about the effect that withholding that data has had, which fundamentally miscast the positions of those on the "other side" from the author.  The full story is much more nuanced.  An imbalanced view of an issue that requires a reasonable understanding of the various viewpoints is not particularly helpful. Of course, there's a place for advocacy, but it should be recognized as such.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Best regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Greg</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 1:43 AM Kan Kaili <<a href="mailto:kankaili@gmail.com">kankaili@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you, Marita.  Very informative background.<br>
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  From: Marita Moll <br>
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  Some context for the attached draft circulated by Alan:<br>
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  <a href="https://www.internetgovernance.org/2018/08/29/special-interests-push-u-s-congress-to-override-icanns-whois-policy-process/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.internetgovernance.org/2018/08/29/special-interests-push-u-s-congress-to-override-icanns-whois-policy-process/</a><br>
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  On 8/29/2018 2:47 PM, Alan Greenberg wrote:<br>
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    Not of direct relevance to our work, but perhaps interesting. <br>
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