[Rt4-whois] Law Enforcement & Applicable Laws

[Lutz Donnerhacke]

* Smith, Bill wrote:
> First, I believe the definitions as presented reasonably capture
> the sentiment of most, if not all, members of the Review Team
> (including me).

Thank you for this approval.

> My concern is not with the definitions per se, but rather how they
> might be used in other contexts.

Current policies does not set up special rules for law enforcement as far as
I can see.

> For example, are the "legitimate
> needs of law enforcement" constrained by Applicable Laws?

Of course. That is the instrinctive nature of governmental executive bodies:
They are bound to the law. Private cooperations are also bound to the local
applicable law.

But I misread your question. The term "applicable law" in our context deals
with the laws for the normal business processes in domain registration and
maintainence: The generation and maintainence of whois data. Your question
is about access to whois data. That's a different issue.