The devilish details will have to be with framing a balancing act between privacy and network operations. Which brings me back to a previously unanswered set of questions regarding facts crucial to think about the appropriate balance to be sought between privacy and network operations. I asked (with apologies for naivety/ignorance): > > In the interest of seeing what could be done to alleviate the > challenges of network operators, could someone be kind enough to > present a digestible summary (or accessible references) that groups > the usual things that are sought by operators from registrants when > dealing with typical classes of network problems, as well as the > purpose for which they are sought after. > > Perhaps the possibility of certain actions on account of a registrant > (or the possession of certain information) could be transferred to [a] > proxy service offering hard anonymity, so that it could cooperate with > operators under certain classes of context? Any ideas on how to preserve the balance, McTim? Nicolas On 23/01/2012 12:38 PM, McTim wrote: > indeed Alex, but I don't see this as being in the interest of > non-commercials nor in the public interest in the larger sense. > > WHOIS is only useful if one can get useful information from it! > > Regards, > > McTim > > On 1/23/12, Alex Gakuru<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Isn't NCSG list a vehicle for advancing non-commercial interests? >> >> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:26 PM, McTim<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >