Dear SIG members,
A new proposal "prop-162-v001: WHOIS Privacy" has been sent to the Policy SIG
for review.
It will be presented at the Open Policy Meeting (OPM) at APNIC 59 on Wednesday,
26 February 2025.
https://conference.apnic.net/59/programme/programme/index.html#/day/8/
We invite you to review and comment on the proposal on the mailing list before
the OPM.
The comment period on the mailing list before the OPM is an important part of
the Policy Development Process (PDP). We encourage you to express your views on
the proposal:
- Do you support or oppose this proposal?
- Does this proposal solve a problem you are experiencing? If so,
tell the community about your situation.
- Do you see any disadvantages in this proposal?
- Is there anything in the proposal that is not clear?
- What changes could be made to this proposal to make it more effective?
Information about this proposal is appended below as well as available at:
http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-162
Regards,
Bertrand, Shaila, and Ching-Heng
APNIC Policy SIG Chairs
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prop-162-v001: WHOIS Privacy
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Proposer:
Jonathan Brewer ([email protected])
1. Problem statement
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Through permitted bulk access to APNIC whois, several organisations including
Hurricane Electric and RecordedFuture republish physical addresses, email
addresses, and telephone numbers of APNIC members.
These details are freely available on the web and available for mass harvesting
through the use of screen scraping technology. It is apparent that some third
parties have used this data in a manner contrary to the APNIC whois data
acceptable use agreement.
In the past three years organisations including the Number Resource Society
(Casablanca, Morocco), Unique IP Solutions (Faisalabad, Pakistan), Aileron IT
(Wisconsin, USA), and EarnheardData (details suppressed) have contacted my
organisation via details published exclusively in APNIC whois. None of these
contacts have been to do with a legitimate networking issue.
2. Objective of policy change
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This policy will eliminate the unnecessary publication of APNIC member
organisation contact details. People with a legitimate need for these contact
details can use a service directly provided by APNIC to obtain them.
3. Situation in other regions
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Unknown
4. Proposed policy solution
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APNIC should remove all email addresses, telephone numbers, and physical
addresses from any bulk WHOIS data, and should cause any existing re-publishers
of APNIC WHOIS data to remove this information from the Internet as a condition
for continued access to data.
5. Advantages / Disadvantages
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Advantages:
This should reduce future marketing calls to the NOC phone and marketing emails
to the noc email address.
Disadvantages:
None. The information will still be available via APNIC-controlled WHOIS
services which presumably are protected against illegitimate data harvesting.
6. Impact on resource holders
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No impact on resource holders.
7. References
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