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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ICANN requirement for "information refreshing"?
Richard Forno wrote: > > Is funny that both ICANN and law enforcement are trying to clean up whois > information to facilitate investigative capabilities. What a crock. > > On paper, and in theory, having 'clean' whois data is nice, and helpful for > tech problems, which is the reason I think why it's there in the first > place. > > As if nobody thought about having a 'front man' doing a registration, or > even that the Registrars will be able to truly implement such data-integrity > protocols, among any other ways to muck with this info. > > I mean, garbage in, garbage out. Are they going to go door-to-door like > censustakers to verify this info? > > The reality is it will never work, and besides - any smart criminal will > simply use another domain name, or not even USE a domain name.....a > power-user computer criminal shouldn't have problems remembering a few IP > addys. If they can't, they're stupid and deserve to be caught. Well, rfc-ignorant.org have a different view: http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-whois.html -- amar
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