[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Customer Confidentiality

[Lee Howard]

Pointers welcomed.  I would like to read the precedents myself.

Lee



----- Original Message ----
> From: Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu>
> To: "arin-ppml at arin.net" <arin-ppml at arin.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:05:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Customer Confidentiality
> 
> 
> 
> Lee, 
> 1. IANAL, too
> 2. you don't need to have passed a bar exam to know that there are laws 
> pertaining to privacy, or to discuss them. 
> 3. i've co-authored policy papers, some in refereed journals, with legal 
> professionals about dns whois, including an international comparison of privacy 
> laws and their relevance to whois
> 4. privacy laws don't need to reference whois specifically to be relevant to 
> whois. 
> 5. some laws do specifically reference it, e.g., in the bilateral trade 
> agreements in which the U.S. tried to impose a specific approach to DNS Whois 
> upon small trading partners (Peru, Singapore, etc.). Those countries responded 
> by invoking their national privacy laws and saying that any whois service had to 
> comply with them. q.e.d.
> 
> Milton Mueller
> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lee Howard [mailto:spiffnolee at yahoo.com] 
> > 
> > M. Mueller said:
> > > This doctrine bears no relationship to actual law regarding 
> > privacy and freedom 
> > > of association. 
> > 
> > I am unaware of any laws describing WHOIS, but IANAL.  If 
> > there are laws in 
> > relevant jurisdictions, please cite them by number.
> > 
> > Also, it would be handy for you to disclose your legal 
> > credentials when providing
> > legal advice.
> > 
> > Lee
> > 
> > 
> > [IANAL] = I am not a lawyer.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >      
> > 
> > 
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