[Rt4-whois] Definitions of Privacy and Proxy

[Emily Taylor]

Hi Susan, Seth, Peter

Thanks for your thoughts on this.  I agree on consistency, and will be
happy to go with whatever you guys think best.

Alice - you can edit in as appropriate, yes?


On 29 November 2011 00:39, Susan Kawaguchi <susank at fb.com> wrote:

>  *Hello All, *
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> We seem to use varying definitions of privacy and proxy.   I found these
> two  definitions of both terms in our draft report****
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> In Chapter 4 page 43 ****
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> **u ***Privacy Services *provide the Registrant's Name, but the Privacy
> Service's contact information. The Privacy Service passes on  non-spam
> messages to the Registrant, particularly legal notices, acting as a type of
> “registered agent.”****
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>   ****
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> **u ***Proxy Services* register the domain name and license it to another
> for use.  ****
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> Chapter 8 Page 80****
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> *Privacy *services limit certain user details from WHOIS by offering
> alternate contact information and mail forwarding services, while not
> actually shielding the user’s identity. ****
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> *Proxy *services have a third-party register domain names on the user’s
> behalf and then license the use of the domain name so that a third-party’s
> contact information (and not the licensee’s) is published in WHOIS. ****
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> I prefer the definitions from the Sept. 28, 2009 NORC report. ****
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> *Background *****
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> To ensure that the community can identify who is responsible for a domain
> name, a registered name holder is required to provide and update, as
> needed, their contact information with their registrar of record.
> Registrars are required by ICANN to collect and provide free public access
> to the name of the registered domain name and its name servers and
> registrar, the date the domain was created and when its registration
> expires, and the contact information for the Registered Name Holder, the
> technical contact, and the administrative contact. ** **
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> In some instances, a registered name holder chooses to limit the amount of
> personal information that its registrar of record makes available to the
> public via a Whois query of their database. To do so, a registered name
> holder generally uses a privacy or proxy registration service. For the
> purpose of this study, the definitions of privacy and proxy services, as
> they relate to their use in the domain name system, are as follows: ****
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> *A privacy service provider **offers the registrant an opportunity to
> register a domain name while concealing some personal identifying
> information listed in a WHOIS directory, such as his or her address,
> telephone number, or email address, by providing alternate contact
> information, often that of the privacy service provider. *****
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> *A proxy service provider **registers the domain name on the registrant’s
> behalf and then licenses the use of the domain name to the registrant. The
> contact information in a WHOIS directory for a domain name registered with
> a proxy service is that of the proxy service provider.*****
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> There may be an intentional use of the other definitions that I am not
> aware of but I feel we should provide an extremely clear definition of each
> term since they are currently used interchangeably in the marketplace.  **
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> Susan****
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> Susan Kawaguchi****
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> Domain Name Manager****
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> Facebook Inc.****
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> 1601 California Avenue****
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> Palo Alto, CA****
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> Phone - 650 485-6064****
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> Cell - 650 387 3904****
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> Please note my email address has changed to skawaguchi at fb.com ****
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