Shane Kerr wrote: Hi,
Luckily, the RIPE NCC takes their policies from the RIPE community. So all you need to do is make a rational policy proposal directing the RIPE NCC to set their contact information publication policy as you prefer (although this must of course bow to Dutch law), and get consensus from the community on it.
Unfortunately, you seem to be the only one in favor of lifting the Whois restrictions so you may have a tough time getting consensus on a policy proposal.
But who knows?
Raising the restrictions on personal objects isnt a bad idea at all, but it should wait until personal data and abuse contacts are seperated, like outlined by Tobias' last proposal and after most objects in the database confirm to this new model. I would love to hide all personal email addresses behind a randomly changing address <randomcode>@abuse.ripe.net And names, postal, fon and fax address of personal objects could be hidden behind a webpage with captcha code or thelike, maybe the abuse finder tool could be enhanced here. But again: most important is the seperation of personal and abuse data, a database cleanup and the general unrestricted access to abuse contacts. Kind regards, Frank -- PHADE Software - PowerWeb http://www.powerweb.de Inh. Dipl.-Inform. Frank Gadegast mailto:frank@powerweb.de Schinkelstrasse 17 fon: +49 33200 52920 14558 Nuthetal OT Rehbruecke, Germany fax: +49 33200 52921 ====================================================================== Public PGP Key available for frank@powerweb.de