[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Customer Confidentiality

[Alexander, Daniel]

Bill,

Do you think the community needs to know the details of every user of the IP address space, or do they just need to know the contact information of those that are responsible for its use?

-Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of William Herrin
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:43 PM
To: Aaron Wendel
Cc: arin-ppml at arin.net
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Customer Confidentiality

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Aaron Wendel<aaron at wholesaleinternet.net> wrote:
> My point in writing this policy was to protect information that is
> proprietary to any business.  Tell a realtor you know that you're thinking
> about going into real estate and you'd like his customer list. Then tell him
> that you actually need his customer list to make sure he's legit.  If all he
> does is laugh at you then you got off lucky.  I can think of no other
> private business that is required to publish customer information to the
> public.

Aaron,

Since you brought it up, let's talk real estate. Do you own a house?
If you do and I know your address then I know who you are and I know
how much you paid for the house because your identity and quite a bit
of information about you is published in the public tax records.

Go ahead and try it with the address in my sig:
http://icare.fairfaxcounty.gov/Search/GenericSearch.aspx?mode=ADDRESS

As with land, the public has a bona fide interest in knowing who is
using IP addresses in more than a transient way.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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