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