I wrote a 954 to historic ID a long time ago. Bob Braden didn't think
much of the idea, and the caste system being what it was, and is, that
kept 954 alive until Leslie took a swing at it.
And of course, it is alive and doing fine, or at least undead and
eating brains, today and for the foreseeable future.
There has been little movement in the GNSO for most of a decade on the
issue. The Law and Order people can't be informed that there are
better approaches than the assumption that every registrant, new and
old, is a pedophile or Islamo-Communist. The IP people can't be
informed similarly, that every registrant, new and old, is a pedophile
and a trademark infringer. Registrars, Registries, and neither of the
above people can't bring themselves to agree that the presumption of
universal criminal or tortuous use is correct.
Or what they're compelled to implement. In theory ICANN could get
every gTLD to use IRIS overnight by the stroke of a pen.
Well, that theory would require ICANN to dump the "public-private,
bottom-up, multi-stakeholder" model for a streamlined authoritarian model.
Some people like streamlined authoritarian models. The PRC has
pervasive interposition. The USA has pervasive intercept. I think the
value claims of both are overstated.
Mind, the WHOIS drama plays only in the CNOBI theaters. In .coop and
.museum and .cat and any registry with a non-trivial admission policy
the issue is moot.
Eric
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