Re: [apnic-talk] a proposal agendum for policy SIG at Korea

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Joe and all,

Joe Abley wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 05:49:21PM -0800, Jeff Williams wrote:
> > Joe and all,
> >
> > Joe Abley wrote:
> >
> > > [how to suck eggs]
> >
> >   Yes I am aware of this.  But thank you anyway.  >;)
>
> Any time :)
>
> > > Are you advocating a centralised database which contains the union of
> > > data stored in all regional registries, so as to have a single place to
> > > query for all addresses?
> >
> >   Yes I am.
>
> That sounds trivial to code up without involving the registries
> concerned -- you just need some ugly awk scripts to parse some
> whois queries from the registries.
>
> Or do you have some other, less hackish plan?

  Something much less hackish would be much better don't you
think?

>
>
> > > >   Postal addresses should NOT be listed.
> > >
> > > Why?
> >
> >   It is a privacy issue and concern.
>
> Many people hide behind PO Box type addresses in order to avoid
> divulging street addresses. Other people just include incomplete
> addresses (e.g. name, company name, city, country).

  Well I have a P.O. Box address for instance.  But I am not using
one for purposes of hiding.  I live in the country where mail delivery
is not all that good and I do not have a mail box at my home.
Other people maintain more than one residence for instance as well.
I also do as well.  Some people have dual citizenship, I am also one
of those people as well.  I know many others as well.  In addition
privacy laws in some countries prohibit or severely restrict this sort
of information being publicly accessible.  For all of these reasons,
and others I have not mentioned here are why I believe that having postal
address listed is problematic at best.

>
>
> Is this degree of privacy insufficient?

  In a word, no.  If the IR's had a guarantee that fits with the various
legal requirements with an independent audit clause as mandatory
for guaranteeing Privacy of the individuals, it might be possible.

>
>
> Joe

Regards,

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