Sascha Luck wrote:
Actually, in that case, even the organisation: object must be considered personal data as it usually even contains physical address information. Organisation is not the person
"'personal data' shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person" (q) Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
If the person wished to provide free access to his/her personal data - RIPE should provide this access without any limitation. All data protection RIPE should provide - is a storage protection. If the person wishes to provide this information to RIPE only - no personal data should be displayed to any other third party. It's so simple!
That leaves the issue of masking this data from whois - no idea whether this is technically even possible.
Technically, specifying the data that should be provided and the data that shouldn't - it's even not a question for discussion "is it possible or not". Of course it's possible. It's not the subject of heuristic analysis of the arbitrary data - all the information stored inside the database (whatever type of database that is used) and specifying the criteria for displaying (or masking) data it not the question of possibility - it's the question of realization -- Best wishes, Andrey Semenchuk Trifle Internet Service Provider (056) 731-99-11 www.trifle.net