[Rt4-whois] Updated Recommendation 14 - Centralized Database

[Smith, Bill]

I'm very much in favor of this recommendation. It puts ICANN in a position where it can succeed or fail to live up to its commitment to provide timely, public access to accurate WHOIS information. 

On Nov 30, 2011, at 3:24 PM, "Lutz Donnerhacke" <lutz at iks-jena.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 08:55:59PM -0200, Omar Kaminski wrote:
>> I agree with you from the users' pow, but how to make the access
>> "unrestricted and public" with proxy servers that have a restrictive
>> access by its own purposes, even for privacy reasons?
> 
> That's one of the problems with the AoC. We are not allowed to discuss the
> AoC, but have to take it a the guide to the expected future.
> 
> By interpeting the Consumer Inside Study a centralized "web search of Whois"
> seems to be the natural solution, because almost all private run services of
> this kind hide the results between advertisments (and confusing the reader),
> proclaming arbitary restrictions to the data access, suffer from such
> restrictions by the WHOIS server operators, or illegaly copy the data into
> their repository.
> 
> OTOH such a "web search" operated by ICANN has to opportunity to deal
> correctly with the data (in terms of the existing policies and local laws),
> is multilingual in the correct(TM) way, and can fullfil the AoC
> requirements. The last point is simple, because ICANN (as the operator) is
> bound to the AoC, and ICANN (as the operator) has contractual relationships
> with the WHOIS server operators.
> 
> If ICANN feels, that it can't run such a service as required by the AoC,
> ICANN is the only institution which has the power to *change* those
> requirements.
> 
> And all of those things comes for free (no policy involved, updated, required).
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