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