[Privsec] purpose of whois

[karen banks]

hi avri

>1. "The purpose of the gTLD Whois service is to provide information
>sufficient to contact a responsible party for a particular gTLD
>domain name who can resolve, or reliably pass on data to a party who
>can resolve, issues related to the configuration of the records
>associated with the domain name within a DNS nameserver."
>
>2. "The purpose of the gTLD Whois service is to provide information
>sufficient to contact a responsible party or parties for a particular
>gTLD domain name who can resolve, or reliably pass on data to a party
>who can resolve, technical, legal or other issues related to the
>registration or use of a domain name."

the second seems to potentially open up a few back-doors - 'parties' 
(which?/why/under what circumstances?) - in the UK, ISPS are only 
supposed to give data to one 'trusted' party - the SPOC - special 
point of contact (police officer no lower than a detective constable i think..)

resolve legal issues? - but most problematic is probably the 
open-ended 'use of a domain name'

what are the main arguments you're coming up against? without having 
done a lot of thinking, i would definitly lean towards the first..

karen