Re: [ICANN-EU] privacy and free choice vs. industry advancement

[Patrick Mayer <patrick.mayer@gmx.de>]

Griffini Giorgio wrote:

> P.Mayer wrote:

>> Privacy is _not_ an issue for ICANN.

> Sorry to correct you, but it is.
> It is as long it involve facts directly under the responsabilities
> of ICANN.
> There is an actual debate and work in progress, for example in the
> DNSO
> constituency (If I remember well) about having domain name holders
> contact informations published publicly or not.
> Concerns and talks are exactly about privacy protection.

Well, that's surely a point. If I understand things right, privacy is
a question of the registry itself, but not (so much) for ICANN; also,
because privacy law is very important to (some, especially european)
states, but not as much in the US.

Anyway, thanks for the update.

Patrick