This is a complete misunderstanding.
As I confirmed what is real meaning of the letter in question throughout
the person who wrote and sent the letter in KISA,
their answer is quite different from what YJ is just explaining.
Their concern is just simply to check whether registrars or resellers
abide by the privacy protection related rules - in case of ccTLD, our
national law, and "in case of gTLDs, ICANN guidelines".
The clash between national law and icann guideline was not their concern
at the moment.

YJ, I have already posted this confirmation to namecom list.


regards,

Chun

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, YJ Park wrote:

> The other day I posted an abstract of whois decision issued by KISA
> (Korea Information Security Agency). Some people keep returning to
> me asking more details.
>
> Since there is no English translation for the decision, I am trying to
> be accurate about the KISA decision to be politically correct.
>
> KISA issued and sent a letter to every registrars(10) and resellers(158) in Korea
> a week ago.
>
> It says the current whois policy is violating Information Communication Network Law,
> Clause 22. 2. 3. and Clause 24. 2. According to the law, it is recommended the
> registars and the resellers should take actions to give options to the users whether
> the registrants agree to disclose the whois info before they disclose the whois info.
>
> The current constroversy in Korea is
>
> 1. whether this decision should be applied to the gTLDs as well as ccTLDs.
>
> 2. how are we going to deal with the clash between national law and ICANN policy,
>     which doesn't have any formal treay status in the international law.
>
> YJ
>
>

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