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

[John Bambenek]

Regarding "misappropriation"...

If you wish to live in a cave, feel free to do so. Don't expect all of
society to bring the cave to you.

WHOIS data is used by spam harvesting sure, but it's by no means even a
significant piece of the problem.  If you want to solve the spam
problem, by all means, many of my investigations need help and I'm sure
the non-profit anti-spam outfits have volunteer opportunities.

If you want to stop online harassment, let's stop that problem.

If you are worried about suppression of free speech (and by this I
assume you mean repressive regimes), don't ever register a domain.  If
your own government is in your risk profile, the absolute worst thing
you can do is create paper trails.  There are options that don't require
a domain (or you could use any number of proxy registration options).  I
encourage you also to check out security without borders.

What this does NOT require is to treat all use of WHOIS in the prism of
these remarkably small number of edge cases.

j


On 02/19/2017 04:51 PM, Ayden Férdeline wrote:
> These categories include: 1) unsolicited mass communication, 2)
> individual solicitation and harassment, and 3) the suppression of free
> speech.