Robin, While I applaud your enthusiasm, this proposal will only serve to create a new registrar profit center (as no policy provisions whatsoever have been made to deal with third-party access to unpublished data). By aggregating registration contact data solely in the hands of registrars you are making it possible for those ethically-challenged registrars to sell this data at will. Further, while ICANN bylaws are always amenable to change, we are required to live by conditions stipulated in the organization's Articles of Incorporation that oblige us to "pursue the charitable and public purposes of lessening the burdens of government". Creating a scenario in which the law enforcement community will need to resort to the issuance of thousands upon thousands of subpeonas to secure necessary data does not serve the purpose of lessening governmental burdens. Finally, your narrow approach to "purpose" fails to comport with an understanding of evolution in the namespace. There are legitimate uses of WHOIS data that have evolved over time that are recognized by the business community, the intellectual property community and by governmental entities (all legitimate stakeholders in this process). I would think that your interests, and the interests of this constituency, would better be served by a proposal that confers certain rights in the registration process to natural persons engaged in non-commercial activities. In any event, the NCUC does have a policy committee (of which you are a member) -- please raise this proposal within the committee for committee review and subsequent constituent comment. In its present form I find the proposal to be shortsighted, confrontational, and not amenable to adoption by consensus. best regards, Danny ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com