[gnso-rpm-wg] Action Items, Slides and Notes from the Working Group call held earlier today

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 12/4/17 5:09 am, Nahitchevansky, Georges wrote:
> Actually it touches on the point here. If you are going to make various arguments of alleged abuse in support of claimed transparency, then it would it is relevant to know whether you are supporting a lack of transparency in the whois side of things where abuse has been rampant. While the TMCH and Whois are different animals a number of the arguments being made here to support transparency have actually been mirrored in the other context and rejected by those seeking opacity.  And one major difference between ‎the two situations is that there is widespread evidence of abuse of the whois system whereas here in the TMCH context you do not have evidence of a widespread abuse of the TMCH by brand owners. Nevertheless, you and others persist on wanting to conduct a fishing expedition under the guise of so called "transparency" to try and find some alleged widespread harm that simply does not exist. To many folks on the other side of the aisle, it appears that this is not about transparency but more about some effort to gut existing protections and to obtain the release of confidential information of brand owners as to what they did or did not register.   Perhaps this may not be the intent, but we all know that once that information is out the gaming will really begin. ‎Again, perhaps there are tweeks that could be made to improve the current system, but there is no real basis for undertaking the broad review that is being sought and certainly not for undoing the entire existing system.

It doesn't seem like an inconsistency to me, since the protection of
personally identifiable information is a fundamental human right,
whereas the protection of commercial confidentiality is not.  But you
can support the protection of PII while simultaneously working to
improve access to registration data for legitimate purposes.

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