Re: [apnic-talk] a proposal agendum for policy SIG at Korea
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?
> > > 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).
Is this degree of privacy insufficient?
Joe
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