Re: [DNSOP] Proposal: Whois over DNS

John and Bill,

Let me offer a slightly different perspective.  The proposal would provide
a way for domain name owners to publish information that they want
published, and it would, of course, be publicly available.

The pre-GDPR whois system collected contact information from registrants
irrespective of whether the registrant would have chosen to provide it.
That's a fundamentally flawed structure, i.e. the incentives are misaligned.

I'm not immediately persuaded the proposed solution, i.e. allowing
registrants to publish what they want via DNS records, will result in a
large amount of incorrect data.  What's the motivation to publish wrong
information as opposed to simply not publishing anything?  On the other
hand, it doesn't address the main issue under consideration these days, a
differentiated access system.  Thus, in my view, the proposal would provide
a solution to the easiest portion of the problem space and would not
address any of the deeper issues.

Steve

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 5:45 PM Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:

>
>
> > On Jul 8, 2019, at 2:38 PM, John Bambenek <jcb=
> 40bambenekconsulting.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> >
> > All-
> >
> > In response to ICANN essentially removing most of the fields in WHOIS
> for domain records, Richard Porter and myself created a draft of an
> implementation putting these records into DNS TXT records. It would require
> self-disclosure which mitigates the sticky issues of GDPR et al. Would love
> to get feedback.
>
> Good in principle, but the information in whois has always been, at least
> nominally, third-party vetted.  This would not be.  So my worry is that
> either it would get no uptake, or it would get filled with bogus
> information.  It’s a little hard for me to imagine it being widely used for
> valid information, though that would of course be the ideal outcome.
>
> So, no problem with this in principle, but I’d like to see some degree of
> consensus that user-asserted content is sufficient for people’s needs.
>
>                                 -Bill
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