[atlarge-discuss] Act now -- Your privacy is at risk

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

Unless some of you start waking up and actually begin paying attention to 
what is transpiring internally within ICANN policy-recommending bodies, you 
will soon find yourself being further abused by intellectual property 
interests that don't give a damn about your privacy rights.  The WHOIS Task 
Force has recommended that financial penalties and other penalties be 
assessed against registrants that seek to guard their privacy.

Excerpt:  "The Task Force believes that a method of graduated sanctions or 
enforcements against parties who breach the requirement to provide accurate 
information and to maintain an accurate Whois database,  potentially as a 
combination of policy and financial penalties, should be considered, in order 
to facilitate the actual enforcement of the current policy with respect to 
WHOIS data accuracy."  (part VIII section A -- page 82 hmtl version)

Final comments on the WHOIS Task Force report are due August 28.  

PS.  This is a wee bit more important than selecting a new name for 
icannatlarge.org.  If you claim to represent the user community, then why not 
start doing something that actually matters to users... you might even try 
reading the report and sending in your comments.  Unless, of course, you 
enjoy losing even more of your rights.

The report may be found at http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/whoisTF/
Comments should be sent to comments-whois@dnso.org




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