Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-00.txt

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Tue, 01 May 2012 15:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-00.txt
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> While I can see the usefulness of such an information in specific criminal investigations, I think the registry or registrar could provide this information out of band to the relevant law enforcement authorities, when asked properly.
>
> As mentioned already, IP addresses are considered as personal data under some jurisdictions.

That horse left the barn a decade ago.  If you sign up for zone file 
access, you get all of the name servers and all of the IPs.  This feature 
would just make it available to people who aren't able to download and 
index the entire multi-gigabyte .COM zone file.

In the unlikely event that there are legal constraints on the data that a 
registrar returns, they'll always be able to return an error code that 
means "we can't answer that question."

Regards from someone who does download and index the .COM zone file,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly