[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] ICANN Blog re Session with European DPAs

[Volker Greimann]

Roughly translated version:
> Sorry for being late to the party, but- IP interests dominate these 
> icann working groups and they dominated this working group too before 
> the rest of us showed up. Even though the statement that ICANN makes 
> its money from domain fees collected by registrars is very debatable, 
> I am going to defend it nontheless as it serves my agenda.

> And registrars are always blamed for everything, so we will too. Even 
> though the appearance of regulatory capture is unfair (which i am not 
> the judge of and so cannot say), that is the appearance at this point 
> for those of us that care little to nothing about privacy issues or 
> legal requirements.
>
> Its amusing to see the first comment on his blog is from someone 
> claiming that it is not necessary to use whois for security purposes. 
> While the same argument made many times on this list by many 
> registrars here is absolutely correct, we will continue to belabor 
> this point as it would require us changing our ways.  The author of 
> the blog post is the vice president of RiskIQ. Fall to your knees and 
> adore him now! Maybe he knows a thing or two about using whois for 
> security purposes. Just maybe. Bwahahahahahaha.
>
> If you google search for any other news coverage on this situation, 
> zou will find that we have very vocal lobbyists on our side so most of 
> it is pretty critical about the loss of security we are claiming we 
> would be looking forward to, and critical of ICANN's procrastination, 
> and so far none that we care about are heralding this as any kind of 
> great victory for the tiny percentage of registrants who will receive 
> significantly smaller volumes of spam. But as spam/protection is not 
> the kind of security we care about and pays nothing, who cares? You 
> might not like it, but that's how it is. We were whining about this 
> for a year now instead of starting to think about how to do our jobs 
> without relying on the violation of the privacy rights of millions.
TL;DR We are right, you are wrong!

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