[ppml] New WHOIS policy approved

[Owen DeLong]

Why?  There is not much of a relationship between the ICANN gTLD
whois and the LIR whois data and I see no reason that the policies
should somehow be synchronized.  Domains and IPs are different
and serve different purposes.

Owen


--On April 19, 2006 8:55:23 AM +0100 Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com wrote:

> ICANN has approved a new whois policy
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/historic_vote_on_whois_reformers_win/
>
> The purpose is defined as:
>    The purpose of the gTLD Whois service is to provide information
>    sufficient to contact a responsible party for a particular gTLD
>    domain name who can resolve, or reliably pass on data to a party
>    who can resolve, issues related to the configuration of the records
>    associated with the domain name within a DNS nameserver.
>
> Compare that to item 3 in the proposal 2004-4
> http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2004_4.html
>
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