Dear Sabine, On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:39:51AM +0200, Sabine Dolderer/Denic wrote:
speaking for DENIC ;-). I will try to comment about the reasons why we have (or even must) done the migration.
Please explain why you remove the well-working maintainer scheme.
There were a lot of pressure from our dataprotection office that due to our business we pubish data (or we urge provider to puplish data of their customers) which is not allowed to publish under German data protection laws.
It is allowed. Every customer agreed that his information is published in a public database.
Mainly the existence of the inverse query feature and the publishing of data like phone-, faxnumbers and email addresses was critisized.
Regarding phone, fax and email addresses: with this logic even phone books would be illegal.
I am really sorry that due to this discussion I get the feeling that people felt we are doing things without thinking or good reasons or just to make them angry.
Please explain why this was all negotiated behind closed doors (RIPE-Meetings and hostmaster-l ARE closed doors) although it has a wide impact on ALL domain customers and non-DENIC-members (resellers). Best regards, Daniel Roesen Entire Systems NOC -- Entire Systems Network Operations Center noc@entire-systems.com Entire Systems GmbH - Ferbachstrasse 12 - 56203 Hoehr-Grenzhausen, Germany InterNIC-Handle: ES1238-ORG RIPE-Handle: ESN10-RIPE Tel: +49 2624 9550-55 GnuPG/PGP Key-ID: 0xBF3C40C9 http://www.entire-systems.com/noc/noc-key.asc GnuPG/PGP Fingerprint: 1F3F B675 1A38 D87C EB3C 6090 C6B9 DF48 BF3C 40C9