[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Notes and action items from Next-Generation RDS PDP WG Meeting

[Rob Golding]

> ......and random Internet users also should have a right to find out
> who they are dealing with online.

Yes, and in civilised countries that is dealt with by requirements on 
what must be on paperwork, websites etc.

If someone wants to know about ebay, they'll look at the ebay website, 
and _maybe_ if they're tech-aware, the ssl certificate - they're 
exceptionally unlilkely to be looking at ebay.tld whois

If someone wants to know about a shopify site, they'll be looking at the 
shopify about pages, nothing on shopify's whois would be of any 
relevance

If someone wants to know about a twitter user, they'll look at the 
profile page, it's irrelevant what details are shown on the twitter.com 
whois

and so on.

The whois-tech-contact has been utterly pointless for 20 years - the 
tech role has long since been subsumed by the domain admin role, with 
tech just being yet another email that gets spammed-to-death

The whois-admin contact is primarily a reminder to a registrant who 
their originally web-designer was, and isn't something most registrants 
would know to look at

As to whether the RNH details are useful and should be public is 
debatable.


Rob
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