Re: [apnic-talk] a proposal agendum for policy SIG at Korea
Maemura and all,
MAEMURA Akinori wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> Thank you for your comment.
>
> My idea is,
>
> o Personal postal address and phone# have to be kept
> at IRs. IRs need to identify the user of the
> Internet resource.
How are IR's going to guarantee privacy if address info is given?
Do the IR's have a privacy policy that can meet privacy laws
in various countries?
>
>
> o But they must not be exhibited. What to exhibit is
> the name and some degree of ID info, for example
> what city he/she lives to tell me out of many
> MAEMURA Akinori's :-) all around the world or
> something. ( even though I've never seen another
> MAEMURA Akinori)
This just will not meet current privacy laws on a global basis.
>
>
> o For operational POC, upsteam ISP seems to be
> appropriate
>
> Your idea of working phone number, of course may make
> sense. But I think abuse phone to the work firm may bother
> him/her enough.
>
> :| Maemura and all,
> :|
> :| Good discussion to get under way here. Glad you brought it up.
> :|
> :| At present not all IP addresses are listed in a centralized "Whose"
> :| database. This needs to be corrected soon.
> :|
> :| Personal information should NOT be listed in the WHOIS
> :| for IP addresses. I would suggest that following as sufficient.
> :|
> :| Name
> :| E-mail contact address
> :| and working phone number
> :|
> :| Postal addresses should NOT be listed.
> :|
> :| MAEMURA Akinori wrote:
> :|
> :| > Folks,
> :| >
> :| > I submitted a proposal agendum for policy SIG at APRICOT
> :| > 2000, and it has been approved. The abstruct is below.
> :| >
> :| > The Private Information Issue is getting more serious
> :| > these days. For the people who are personally connected to
> :| > the Internet with some IP addresses, whose contact info
> :| > including postal addresses or phone numbers are exhibited at
> :| > WHOIS database, the issue is quite serious.
> :| >
> :| > I'd like to have some discussions at the policy SIG and
> :| > try to seek the solutions, I mean, the good trade-offs
> :| > between private info protection and leaf site info
> :| > availability for network ops.
> :| >
> :| > Please feel easy to make comment for questions for this,
> :| > at this mailing list.
> :| >
> :| > Thank you in advance.
> :| >
> :| > -----
> :| > Title: Handling of Personal Information on the APNIC Database
> :| > Applicant: MAEMURA Akinori, IP working group, JPNIC
> :| >
> :| > Circumstances:
> :| > Since the dedicated line service got cheaper than it used to be,
> :| > personal sites connected to the Internet by dedicated lines are
> :| > increasing these days.
> :| >
> :| > It is regulated that all the IP address assignments are registered
> :| > onto APNIC database with the postal addresses and the phone numbers of
> :| > their points-of-contact(POCs). Consequently it leads out the private
> :| > information of the administrators of the personal sites to the public.
> :| > Therefore it might be the problem of the abuse of private information,
> :| > say the Issues of Private Information.
> :| >
> :| > Proposal:
> :| > One of the measure to solve this problem is to register their ISP's
> :| > POCs as POCs of the sites. This measure needs ISPs' recognitions and
> :| > corporation. Anyway I'd like to discuss this issue at the policy SIG
> :| > to provide some principles on the protection of private information to
> :| > APNIC.
> :| >
> :| > -----
> :snip:
>
> --maem
Regards,
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