On 4/9/2004 2:35 PM Robert L Mathews noted that:
> So marketing is now deciding how to discuss technical issues with
> customers?
Nope - we put sales in charge of those types of things.
> The "joke" does, however, represent the opinions of many end-users.
> Ironically, if WHOIS were restricted to parties who had a reasonable need
> to know it, instead of being public, end users would be much more likely
> to provide valid contact information.
Whois is a mess.
Right to know is more of a mess IMHO tho' - for instance, does that
include allowing law enforcement? (Think carefully through the answer -
they already have strict due process requirements, should we make it
easier for them to get identifying information about your customers?)
Personally, I think Whois should go away entirely. There's enough data
in the ARIN/RIPE/APNIC databases for most technical requirements and
certainly enough power in the judicial system(s) for everything else.
-- Regards,-rwr
"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress." - Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)
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