Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
> Hi Kim,
>
> As a Brazilian-Canadian (and user of CIRA's services) I was unaware of
> this change (sloppy me). Shocking indeed, as I used to refer to CIRA's
> policy as an example of fair practice on the issue.
>
> Great to know that you will join the review team!
>
> frat rgds
>
> --c.a.
>
> Kim G. von Arx wrote:
>   
>> All: 
>>
>> I forgot to add that after I had left CIRA (about 3 years ago) and the senior management at CIRA changed completely, CIRA decided to change the privacy and WHOIS policy significantly again which included an unsupervised backdoor to law enforcement etc.  This development resulted in a lot of criticisms and disappointments by consumer and privacy groups.  Therefore, the current CIRA privacy and whois policy is different from the one that I had introduced and implemented a few years back. 
>>
>> Kim 
>>     
Though a non-Canadian (and non-Brazilian) I also often referred to the
CIRA standards, which I knew since the workshop Kathy Kleinman had
coordinated.

What a pity to learn that it is different by now. How did this happen?
Any specific dynamics that would be good to know?


Norbert Klein

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