Russ

First of all the SOCA 5 Cs document has absolutely nothing to do with WHOIS access or display. It's to with whois data validation and verification. It's also not even about IP address space and was actually aimed at domain names.

With regard to your comments

I have never had any issue accessing any whois data for the RIPE region (or any other region for that matter)

If law enforcement or anyone else who was not using the data for commercial gain was having issues then I'm sure that it would be addressed.

Regards

Michele


On 29 Mar 2012, at 13:10, russ@cons... wrote:

> The proposal about the 5 C's sounds good except you also have to include whois access policies.  If you can't get to the data easily and be able to use it it is of no good.  Right now there is a complicated patchwork of whois access policies.  Most of them were made up by a small group of people who really don't consider all the issues.
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> The biggest problem here is that RIPE claims to have a legal decision about whois access but they won't release it publicly.  Nobody has provided a reason why this legal opinin has not been released to the community.
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> People try to spend time attacking me and saying my comments are not constructive, etc.  This is being done to divert attention from the fact that RIPE won't release the information to the community.
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> RIPE needs to release this legal opinion to the community.  There is no excuse for withholding it.
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> Thnak You
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>

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