Hi to all We the Bhutanese are trying the Self-sovereign data access approach where we have full ownership, control, and access to our data. Instead of relying on centralized entities to manage, store, or grant permissions for data access, we the data owner can decide how, when, and with whom our data is shared. If a similar concept can be adopted here: Eg: If an organization has the right to allow access when one receives a request, will not only help in this proposal, but it will also help to check if the corresponding email address is still active. This would be best I feel, else I *STRONGLY* support this proposal from Jonathan.
Thank you Jonathan for the proposal Cheers Manoj Adhikari (MJ) Thimphu Bhutan On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM Bertrand Cherrier via SIG-policy < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > prop-162-v001: WHOIS Privacy > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Proposer: > Jonathan Brewer ([email protected]) > > > 1. Problem statement > ------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------- > 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 > -------------------------------- > Unknown > > 4. Proposed policy solution > -------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------ > 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 > ----------------------------------- > No impact on resource holders. > > 7. References > ---------------- > _______________________________________________ > SIG-policy - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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