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

[karnika]

-----Original Message-----
From: karnika [mailto:karnika at sethassociates.com] 
Sent: 29 February 2016 16:53
To: 'Rob Golding' <rob.golding at astutium.com>
Cc: 
Subject: RE: [gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Notes and action items from Next-Generation
RDS PDP WG Meeting

Rob,

I totally agree with you on this point. Internet users must have a point of
checking out who a website belongs to , details of registrant etc and these
should be verified. Perfectly ok if it is a layered access but something
authentic is better than nothing.

Warm regards,

Karnika Seth


-----Original Message-----
From: gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces at icann.org
[mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Rob Golding
Sent: 29 February 2016 16:09
To: 'gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org' <gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Notes and action items from Next-Generation
RDS PDP WG Meeting

> ......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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Rob Golding   rob.golding at astutium.com
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