On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:35:23PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@xxxxxxx> wrote a message of 29 lines which said: > 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. Very bad idea, IMHO. But it's true that, if you refuse email from ".com" domains, you have much less spam :-) > 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. The vast majority of the ccTLD in the world have no whois server (check the "whois server" field in the IANA whois) and often not publication of contact information at all. But this is irrelevant: how many times did you see Nigerian scams coming from the ".ng" domain? > I'd hope that European privacy laws would be flexible enough to > allow for voluntary publication of contact information by TLD > operators. Certainly. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf