Except one additional email, there appears to be nothing to suggest mass violation of who is database.
Regards Anupam Agrawal. On Thu, 23 Jan, 2025, 17:28 Christopher Hawker, <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the exact reason why Whois Privacy is needed... An identical email > at the same time was sent to an alternate email address > [email protected], which is not used anywhere else except for contact > with APNIC. > > > Regards, > Christopher Hawker > ------------------------------ > *From:* Amrita Choudhury <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 22, 2025 12:35 PM > *To:* Christopher Hawker <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [sig-policy] Re: prop-162-v001: WHOIS Privacy > > Dear Christopher, > > Apologies that initial reading made me think that the proposal is to > remove WhoiS information. > > However, even if we consider it is for the bulk data, with the data > provided by Vivek of 400 entities signing the agreement with APNIC to > have access to this data so far and one known case of abuse (which was > then acted upon), the issue does not seem so grave that it needs to be > considered for a policy change, at least for now. > > Regards > > Amrita > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM Christopher Hawker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Good morning Amrita, > > I am yet to hear of one organisation, that accepts support requests > through Abuse, IRT or Network Operations contacts listed in the Whois > database. If the organisation is large enough they will have separate > support teams for customers and network operations engineers who perform > two different functions in a business and where they are small enough that > the same team runs both areas, they may have the same contact information > for both purposes (support and NOC). > > What would be a use case for a law enforcement organisation to retrieve > contact information for network operators in bulk? If it's in relation to a > technical matter they'd be able to retrieve contact information from either > the Whois website or by accessing the Whois server directly on port 43. > > I can not think of a reason why an organisation would need to download > contact information in bulk, so if you are privy to anything which I am > not, please do share. > > Regards, > Christopher Hawker > _______________________________________________ > SIG-policy - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > SIG-policy - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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