Actually the "rent-seeking" comes from the trademark and certain elements of the security community, who want ICANN and its institutional arrangements to raise costs for others in order to reduce their search costs.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NCSG-Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of McTim
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:26 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] .CAT WHOIS Proposed Changes - call for public
> comments - Think hard!!
>
> On 1/23/12, Konstantinos Komaitis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > So how does my proposal for submitting this set of comments as a NCSG
> > position manifests that I 'try to obtain benefits for myself'? I think there
> > is something wrong here with your sense of smelling.
>
> I didn't mean you personally...You asked if anyone had any objection,
> and I raised mine.
>
> I'm not a big fan of obfuscation of contact details in WHOIS, and
> can't see that non-commercials are in any way more or less special per
> this requirement than anyone else!
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel