[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Use cases: Fundamental, Incidental, and Theoretical

[Rob Golding]

>> Theoretical
>> ===========
>> We have seen a couple of proposed use cases that seem to be ideas
>> that
>> people have for useful or harmful ways that RDS can be used, but
>> that
>> do not exist today (at least not that anyone can fully document).
>> 
>> For example, there seems to be a desire to use the RDS as a way to
>> issue warrants for information about registrants. While this may be
>> useful, this is not possible today (even with RDAP, I note).

It not only is possible today, it's also "common" (although thankfully 
not frequent)

Registrars get served warrants for details about registrants, and the 
_only_ information from WHOIS that's "needed" or used for such cases is 
the name of the Registrar.

I had the pleasure of meeting Chris Tarbell, ex-FBI Cyber Crime, at 
HostingCon last week - asked about WHOIS/domain data he said "we dont 
use it"

Last year at the UKNOF event in Sheffield I spent quite some time 
talking with some amazing people from the UK CyberCrime departments - 
asked the same questions, they confirmed that although whois _might_ be 
looked at to see if it matches _data they already have_ for 
confirmation, it's not used or relied on.

Which beggars the question, should "LawEnforcement" use cases even be 
part of the discussions ?

Rob
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