Hello Nik,

and NCC-Services-WG,

I fully support your view on this topic.

Especially the statements marked in bold.

Regards, Kurt

Il 10/10/18 11:23, ROBINOT Stephane DCPJ SDLC ha scritto:

Speaking about sole trader, if i understand well your point and go beyond, the name by itself might also be considerated as a personal data as it is also a way to identify the person.

We should be extremely careful about what data is published in the whois database, because whois is easily and fully accessible by anyone in the world.

Whois is all-or-nothing, you can't authenticate, you can't choose what to disclose, you can't exert any kind of access control, you can't even identify who queried it. it's PUBLIC!

Whois is harvested and abused daily NOT for its intended purpose.
That's why you see so many abuse@ noc@ registry@ email addresses!

You want a list of addresses for your job? Fine, do it. sell it.
keep it secret. We don't care.
Whois is not the right place to FORCE someone to publish any kind of information if he doesn't want to.
If you really want a legal address, there are more specialized and regulated databases for that. Cross referencing is not so hard.
Unless you want to be sketchy and want to go around some restriction, there is no point to make whois worse.

Regards,