On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:38, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Nobody suggested to kill the whois protocol, just the badly written > and obsolete RFCs which were requiring violations of various european > laws regarding privacy. Neither ICANN or IETF should specify privacy > policy for a ccTLD. I believe Frank's concern is that he wants the ability to refuse services to sites who have not published accurate contact information through whois. If a ccTLD were to, for instance, refuse to publish any contact information (even if the registrant *wanted* it published) this makes his life difficult. I'd hope that European privacy laws would be flexible enough to allow for voluntary publication of contact information by TLD operators. - Bill _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf