« Is Your Privacy on Facebook a Perk? | Main | Some Places, Word Is More Deadly Than Metasploit »
October 29, 2007
ICANN Set to Destroy WHOIS to Save It?
The Associated Press — Whois May Be Scrapped to Break Deadlock:
“It will have a tough time winning approval — and could create chaos. But the fact that abandoning Whois is on the table before that committee underscores frustrations among privacy advocates that ICANN appears on the verge of launching new studies and deferring a decision yet again after some six years of debate.
“Ross Rader, a member of ICANN’s generic names council and the sunset proposal’s chief sponsor, said many negotiators are stalling because they prefer the status quo, which gives them the access to Whois that they desire.
An executive with domain registration company Tucows Inc., Rader said he is just trying to break the deadlock and doesn’t necessarily want the databases to disappear.
“‘What removing the status quo will do is force all of the actors to come together without the benefit of a status quo to fall back on and say, ‘We are now all screwed. What will we do?” Rader said. ‘It will lead to better good-faith negotiations.’”
Posted by mhall at 7:36 PM | Add Comment
Leave a comment