[governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ICANN/ITU "legitimacy"

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From: "Vittorio Bertola" <vb at bertola.eu.org>
To: "McTim" <dogwallah at gmail.com>
Cc: "Milton Mueller" <mueller at syr.edu>; "WSIS Plenary" 
<plenary at wsis-cs.org>; "WSIS Internet Governance Caucus" 
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ICANN/ITU "legitimacy"


> Il giorno lun, 11-04-2005 alle 09:00 +0300, McTim ha scritto:
>> > telephone company is. It's crazy. You can get an unlisted phone number
>> > for your home. Why can't you get a domain name for home use without
>> > publishing your private contact data?
>>
>> Well, you can, you just have to lie ;-)
>
> No, you can't. If you provide false data and someone complains, your
> domain gets quickly cancelled.
>
> On the other hand, if you had a way to prevent your data from being
> spread out to everyone without care, you would be much more likely to
> provide true data, and thus to be contactable when necessary. Actually,
> the present situation makes Whois hard to use - if you send a message to
> the email address listed in Whois, it often happens that it doesn't get
> read because 99% of what's sent to that address is spam.
>
>> Does the public benefit outweigh the possible downside to publication.
>> IMHO, it probably does.
>
> Unfortunately, that's not what the law says in my country.
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