Re: [ICANN-EU] Disclosure of ICANN At Large Membership information

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 21:03 12/11/00 +0100, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>At 12:36 12/11/2000 +1300, Joop Teernstra wrote:
>>The membership Advisory committee was handpicked.
>>If domain Name holders had been represented on it, the MAC would surely
>>have made an exception for DN holder data that are already in the public
>>domain.
>>This would have helped a quick self-organization of most ICANN affected
>>area of @large users.
>
>Correction: DN holder data is not in the public domain, even though it is 
>publicly available.
>See the copyright statements on whois.ripe.net, whois.nsiregistry.com and 
>so forth; all of them restrict usage of the information in ways that are 
>inconsistent with spamming all of them to ask them to sign up with ICANN.

Thanks for the correction of my sloppy language, Harald.
The point, however, remains the same.
The MAC could have advised ICANN to ask for the DN holder's approval to be
contacted by the elected directors but not anyone else, at the time he
signed up as ICANN member.

--Joop--
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