Fellow non-commercial stakeholders,

At 2016-03-17 09:22:34 +0100
Shane Kerr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Pros:
[...]
> * Authenticated users can have their queries tracked. (This is  a pro
>   because it means that, for example, if police decide to start
>   collecting people's home addresses then it is not done via an
>   anonymous account.) 

Here's a timely example of the kind of abuse that tracking
authenticated users can prevent (or at least identify when it happens):

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/fearing-no-punishment-denver-cops-abuse-crime-databases-for-personal-gain/

Coming up with recommendations for proper transparency and oversight of
such tracking is going to be quite tricky, given the overlapping set of
laws and regulations that corporations operating WHOIS (and soon RDAP)
services operate under. Luckily ICANN has more lawyers than most
governments, so if any group can do it, ICANN can. ;)

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Getting back to whether NCSG should endorse the recommendation to
adopt RDAP... 

At the risk of repeating myself, let me say that my thinking is that the
NCSG should worry more about policies than the underlying technology.
Most (possibly all) of the RDAP features could also be implemented with
web pages - this stuff isn't magical.

I'm not strongly opposed to pushing RDAP, but I don't consider it very
important.

Cheers,

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Shane