[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Dangers of public whois

[benny at nordreg.se]

> On 14 Feb 2017, at 18:39, allison nixon <elsakoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You stand alone in that opinion. Spamhaus is not perfect but they are the most widely used blocklists among network operators. The amount of harm prevented by Spamhaus's block lists eclipses the harm prevented by registrants receiving WHOIS spam. It is like comparing the size of the sun to the size of an ant. If you have ever tried to operate from infrastructure that's on Spamhaus's block lists, your access to the Internet at large will be very poor indeed.

So you are saying that none of this spam are not originating from whois harvesting?

> 
> How many of you people actually have day to day experience in fighting spam and preventing the massive privacy invasions that happen on a daily basis to innocent people?  I am getting the feeling that this group badly needs to gain some perspective. WHOIS spam is a problem and is an annoyance, privacy is important, but this group keeps talking about WHOIS privacy and completely ignoring the fact that by volume such a scheme would cause great harms for mostly imaginary gain. To me this shows a sign that many of the arguments here are about idealism without practical experience.

So since that is only a small part of the problem as you state it then we shall not do the effort to reduce it as a part of the change we want?

I am trying to understand the viewpoint and the argument for letting public whois info being used to generate spam and scams as less important here


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