Re: [weirds] Comments on draft-kucherawy-weirds-requirements-00

Country code top level domains sit outside ICANN's purview. Each ccTLD sets it's own WHOIS policy.

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On Jun 29, 2011, at 11:11 AM, "SM" <sm@resistor.net> wrote:

> At 03:19 28-06-2011, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:
>> That's pretty much the same as the "no marketing / no abuse" clause 
>> in ICANN's RAA.
> 
> I gather that the RAA document is the one at 
> http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/ra-agreement-21may09-en.htm
> 
> The last compliance report mentions that:
> 
>   - Most registrars provide access to Whois data in a manner reasonably
>     compliant with Section 3.3 of the RAA; representing a 99% compliance rate
> 
>   - Out of 970+ accredited registrars, 11 registrars had non-functioning Whois
>     service.
> 
>   - Five registrars had overly aggressive rate-limiting policies.
> 
> Whois usage is commonly brought up in discussions about port 43 (e.g. 
> draft-brunner-rfc954-historic).  I'll quote some text from denic.de:
> 
>   "This data has to be made publicly available for several reasons.  One
>    evident reason is that it must be possible to contact domain holders if
>    their domains as such or the use of them cause technical difficulties
>    that might lead to disturbances for others."
> 
> From nominet.co.uk:
> 
>   "The WHOIS makes it easier to identify the legal registrant of a domain
>    name and should therefore help build more confidence in the use of the
>    Internet."
> 
> I'll leave it to whoever knows the answer to elaborate on whether the 
> RAA covers, for example, these two operators of Whois services.  The 
> discussion about variants ( see 
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsext/current/msg11080.html ) 
> might shine some light on the scope of a somewhat similar problem.
> 
> In the words of Viviane Reding, "I always meet people who are 
> astonished that Christmas is on the 25th of December".
> 
> Regards,
> -sm 
> 
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