I would like to know if all the stated opinions relate more to an ipv4 world than ipv6, and as Leo touched on it, does ipv6 add a significant twist to the argument?<div>RD<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:52:07 -0800<br>
From: "George Bonser" <<a href="mailto:gbonser@seven.com">gbonser@seven.com</a>><br>
To: "Aaron Wendel" <<a href="mailto:aaron@wholesaleinternet.net">aaron@wholesaleinternet.net</a>>, "Ted Mittelstaedt"<br>
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Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Petition Underway - Policy Proposal 95:<br>
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> To: 'Ted Mittelstaedt'<br>
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<br>
> My proposal is about<br>
> obscuring the<br>
> address, phone number and e-mail of a collocated or hosted customer to<br>
> prevent poaching by competition. I can use the rational that it<br>
> protects<br>
> the ISPs customer list and I could also use the "it protects customer<br>
> privacy" argument that obviously won 2004-7.<br>
<br>
Well, so I am a competitor combing through whois. I see<br>
<a href="http://some-odd-site.com" target="_blank">some-odd-site.com</a> is your customer but there is no address and phone<br>
number. So I either go to their contact page on their website or use<br>
directory assistance to look them up, and ask the person answering the<br>
phone to speak to the person in charge of their internet operations. So<br>
how are they or you "protected" by such a rule and how does it prevent<br>
someone from cold calling your customers.<br>
<br>
Companies advertize and try to make it the opposite of difficult to<br>
contact them.<br>
<br>
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Message: 2<br>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:55:56 -0500<br>
From: "Wrona, Ed" <<a href="mailto:Ed.Wrona@aeroflex.com">Ed.Wrona@aeroflex.com</a>><br>
To: "Aaron Wendel" <<a href="mailto:aaron@wholesaleinternet.net">aaron@wholesaleinternet.net</a>>, "Ted Mittelstaedt"<br>
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Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Petition Underway - Policy Proposal 95:<br>
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Aaron:<br>
<br>
You make a valid point with the Action Photo analogy, however<br>
IMHO, they and companies like them represent a small percentage of colo<br>
customers. In the vast majority of cases, customers are the only ones<br>
with administrative access to an offending machine, again my opinion.<br>
Other than shutting down their cross-connect, I am not quite sure what<br>
the network operator would do in the case of such a complaint.<br>
<br>
In either case, I have been reading this thread all day and I<br>
just do not understand the rationale. Since you have stated that:<br>
<br>
"My proposal is about obscuring the<br>
address, phone number and e-mail of a collocated or hosted customer to<br>
prevent poaching by competition."<br>
<br>
I may be way off base, however, from my perspective, I just<br>
don't see this happening. I have never once received a solicitation or<br>
cold call from any network provider looking to offer service based on<br>
one of our SWIP's (or not that I recall or know of).<br>
<br>
Further, how does hiding the address, phone number, and email<br>
prevent this "poaching" if it does exist ? If the name of the company<br>
is there, can't they do some extra work and make the solicitation anyway<br>
?<br>
<br>
<br>
Ed Wrona<br>
Network Administrator<br>
Aeroflex, Inc.<br>
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Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 8:29 PM<br>
To: 'Ted Mittelstaedt'<br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:arin-ppml@arin.net">arin-ppml@arin.net</a><br>
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Petition Underway - Policy Proposal 95:<br>
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>No it does not. Didn't you read your own proposal? It doesn't protect<br>
>hosted and collocated customers AT ALL. It protects the _ISP's_ that<br>
>sell services to those hosted and collocated customers.<br>
<br>
You must be reading something different. My proposal is about obscuring<br>
the<br>
address, phone number and e-mail of a collocated or hosted customer to<br>
prevent poaching by competition. I can use the rational that it<br>
protects<br>
the ISPs customer list and I could also use the "it protects customer<br>
privacy" argument that obviously won 2004-7.<br>
<br>
>Those hosted and collocated customers are businesses that are out there<br>
>paying good money to make themselves known to the world so they can<br>
>sell websites and whatever else they do. Your idea of "protecting"<br>
them<br>
>is to interfere with this process.<br>
<br>
Not all of them. I have a customer, Action Photo. It's a photography<br>
studio run by two people. They colo a server with me and have a /29. I<br>
have<br>
to SWIP their information even though they are the last people that<br>
should<br>
be called if there's an issue and would just end up calling me anyway.<br>
<br>
<br>
>So in other words, your going to slam the previous decision based on<br>
>process and completely ignore the actual discussion itself - and all<br>
you<br>
>have to offer is that ignorant people think it's stupid?<br>
<br>
No. I'm going to change it. There's a process for that and it's the<br>
process I'm going to use. You insinuating that I am somehow trying to<br>
circumvent the system or shove it down people's throat by using my right<br>
to<br>
petition for a draft proposal shows your ignorance of the very system<br>
you<br>
proclaim to be supporting.<br>
<br>
>And your definition of "reasonable" is "agrees with my proposal"<br>
<br>
Are you serious because I'm starting to think you're just messing with<br>
me.<br>
I replied to a post from George Bonser asking how he would change it and<br>
one<br>
from YOU talking about compromise. Make a suggestion.<br>
<br>
Aaron<br>
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Message: 3<br>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:22:20 -0500<br>
From: Jim McBurnett <<a href="mailto:jim@tgasolutions.com">jim@tgasolutions.com</a>><br>
To: William Herrin <<a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us">bill@herrin.us</a>><br>
Cc: arin ppml <<a href="mailto:ppml@arin.net">ppml@arin.net</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy 2010-2: /24 End User Minimum<br>
Assignment Unit - Correct Title<br>
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>>That's one reason why letting the ISP decide whether or not to give<br>
>>you a /24 suppresses abuse.<br>
<br>
Bill,<br>
This one item is a perfect example of the sponsorship idea I put at the end of my last post..<br>
<br>
Checkbox-- ISP A and ISP B-- Would you assign a /24 to this end user?<br>
Fill in the blank: (why or why not)<br>
<br>
<br>
The ISP's retain the right to have a comment on the assignment..<br>
Would that calm the concern about abuse?<br>
<br>
<br>
Policy could read:<br>
<br>
Upon submission for an ARIN Assigned PA /24, ARIN will contact both upstream ISP's via email utilizing the POC for that BGP ASN.<br>
If ISP endorses the request, the request is advanced for further ARIN consideration.<br>
If ISP does not respond within 5 business days, endorsement is considered to be implied.<br>
If ISP does not respond favorably, requesting organization is referred to that ISP and the merits of the<br>
ISP endorsement is considered by ARIN. Where ARIN may or may not advance the request based on the standing policies at the time.<br>
ISP may rescind or modify their endorsement in a timeline to be published in the endorsement requesting email from ARIN.<br>
That timeline should not exceed a period of 10 business days.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thoughts?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Jim<br>
<br>
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Message: 4<br>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:51:30 -0800<br>
From: Ted Mittelstaedt <<a href="mailto:tedm@ipinc.net">tedm@ipinc.net</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:ppml@arin.net">ppml@arin.net</a><br>
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Policy Proposal 95: Customer Confidentiality<br>
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Leo Bicknell wrote:<br>
> I supported the petition for this proposal. I did that not because<br>
> I think this proposal is perfect, but because I think the issue is<br>
> still important and relevant. Also, as I have already posted, I<br>
> believe there is a new twist on it with respect to IPv6; which may<br>
> not be discussed in this proposal but it can be a vehicle for this<br>
> discussion.<br>
><br>
> However, this issue is not new. Some of our newer members may not<br>
> understand that. If you were not around for the following discussions,<br>
> you may want to look in the Policy Proposal Archive on ARIN's web<br>
> site, and or reach some back PPML archives....<br>
><br>
> 2001-7: Bulk ARIN WHOIS Data<br>
> 2002-4: Bulk Copies of ARIN's WHOIS<br>
> 2002-8: Privatizing POC Information<br>
> 2003-1: Required Performance of Abuse Contact<br>
> 2003-2: Network Abuse<br>
> 2003-5: Distributed Information Server Use Requirements<br>
> 2003-9: WHOIS Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)<br>
> 2003-11: Purpose and scope of WHOIS directory<br>
> 2003-16: POC Verification<br>
> 2004-4: Purpose and scope of ARIN WHOIS directory<br>
> 2004-6: Privacy of Reassignment Information<br>
> 2004-7: Residential Customer Privacy<br>
> 2005-2: Directory Services Overhaul<br>
> 2006-1: Residential Customer Privacy<br>
> 2006-6: Bulk WHOIS agreement expiration clarification<br>
> 2008-1: SWIP support for smaller than /29 assignements<br>
> 2008-7: WHOIS Integrity Policy Proposal<br>
><br>
> If you want my take on the entire area; the vast majority of folks<br>
> are unhappy with the current state of how SWIP/WHOIS/contact<br>
> information is entered, used and distributed.<br>
<br>
I have to disagree with that. Everyone on this list has not posted<br>
regarding this issue. The people posting are the ones who are<br>
unhappy and the ones (like myself) who think their objections are<br>
unwarranted. But that is not the "majority of folks" It MIGHT be<br>
the "majority of posters" but the posters on both sides are a<br>
minority.<br>
<br>
Also a lot of people are unhappy with how the information is entered<br>
because they don't like the SWIP system and want to replace it with<br>
some webinterface thing, they are not objecting the the actual principle<br>
of making the data available.<br>
<br>
Other RIR's don't seem to have a problem with this data being available<br>
and I frankly think that the reason this topic generates attention<br>
on this list is that because the list is heavy with people from North<br>
America where so much of the Internet connectivity is provided privately<br>
by corporations.<br>
<br>
In the US there is this cultural mythos surrounding the perceived<br>
"business underdog". People root for the small guy against his large<br>
competitors, Microsoft for example was the darling of the hobby market<br>
when it was slugging it out with IBM - then when Microsoft got big<br>
everyone who loved it turned their back on it and now they love Apple,<br>
(and are willing to pay 6 times for a computer for the privilege but<br>
that's a different story). This despite the fact that the little guy<br>
in some cases is providing an inferior product against the big guy.<br>
(ie: the ipod shuffle vs the Sony MP3 walkman)<br>
<br>
The people pushing these "cover your IPs" type proposals like to frame<br>
it as David vs Goliath, due to this mythos, and it always gets good<br>
press, the small struggling ISP being poached by the giant lumbering<br>
ISP who sets their sales dogs to digging into WHOIS.<br>
<br>
The reality is that there isn't significant customer loss from poaching<br>
WHOIS from a business that is doing a good job and keeping it's<br>
customers happy. Speaking from sales experience, trying to poach<br>
customers from a WHOIS list is really, really dumb. A good salesman is<br>
going to define a territory of customers, figure out how to serve<br>
them, then go after them. A territory is commonality between<br>
customers. Some companies use geography as a criteria, some<br>
use type of business. Some use connections and their customer<br>
territory looks senseless from an outside observer until you<br>
find out that all their customers golf at the same course as the<br>
salesman. NO territory I ever heard of a salesman using ever<br>
mapped neatly onto TCP/IP ranges. ISPs do not customarily<br>
group all their medical customers into the same IP range, or<br>
all their construction customers, or all their customers who<br>
run webservers. You could get a better lead<br>
list from pointing a blunderbuss at the phone book and pulling<br>
the trigger and going after anything still readable than by<br>
pulling WHOIS data. At least, with the phone book method, they<br>
would all live in the same area.<br>
<br>
> However, even though<br>
> perhaps 80% of the people are unhappy with the current system, no<br>
> more than 20% of the people can agree on any "solution", and thus<br>
> the status quo always wins.<br>
><br>
> However I think the sheer number of proposals is proof that the<br>
> status quo is not working for a lot of people.<br>
><br>
<br>
The sheer number of proposals is frankly because the opponents<br>
of the status quo are arguing on principle, as are the supporters<br>
of the status quo. It is an argument that YOU, Leo, aren't going to<br>
solve, nor am I. It is like the Abortion argument in the US, it's<br>
a fight based on principles on both sides, and it isn't going to<br>
end, ever, no matter what the law is written to say.<br>
<br>
If the status quo was that ARIN covered everything then there<br>
would be just as many proposals to OPEN the database.<br>
<br>
> Sadly though, the discussion has already devolved into useless<br>
> analogies, attacks, lack of understanding, lack of empathy, and<br>
> down right cynicism. Everyone is sure there is some ulterior motive<br>
> involved, to hide a spammer, make money, or game the system. Rather<br>
> than thinking about Joe Average, everyone is talking about the one<br>
> corner case that will always exist, no matter what system we have<br>
> in place.<br>
><br>
<br>
I am sorry you are so cynical yourself to say that but that<br>
just isn't true.<br>
<br>
As someone else posted this topic is fundamentally an argument<br>
of the Good of the Many outweighing the Good of the Few, or<br>
the One. (for those Trekkies out there) Yes, for some<br>
"corner cases" it might be beneficial to privatize their<br>
SWIPS, if for no other reason than they lack the creativity of<br>
coming up with baloney names for SWIP entries (ie: Universal<br>
Exports, Binford Tools, and the like) But the community would<br>
suffer, as there is currently NO procedure for routine audits<br>
by the RIR of the SWIP data, nor is there ever likely to be,<br>
and almost certainly nobody on this list would be willing to<br>
see their fees increase to pay for one. IPv6 does not change<br>
this because the issue here is reachability of the other guy who<br>
is spamming/attacking/whatever to you vs reachability of the<br>
other guy so you can waste your time trying to poach him.<br>
<br>
History is replete with examples of this kind of argument, over<br>
a great many topics, and there's no shortage of them today.<br>
People get emotional and come up with wild scenarios to prove<br>
their point because this is how these arguments work. And usually<br>
there is not much movement from either side - which is why the<br>
AC tried dropping this proposal in the first place.<br>
<br>
I will close with one last point, and that is the Internet got<br>
to where it is today with the system it has now. That is probably<br>
the most compelling argument that openness in WHOIS was the<br>
right choice in the beginning, as it has WORKED.<br>
<br>
Ted<br>
<br>
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Message: 5<br>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:36:23 -0600<br>
From: Joe Morgan <<a href="mailto:joe@joesdatacenter.com">joe@joesdatacenter.com</a>><br>
To: Ted Mittelstaedt <<a href="mailto:tedm@ipinc.net">tedm@ipinc.net</a>><br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:ppml@arin.net">ppml@arin.net</a><br>
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Policy Proposal 95: Customer Confidentiality<br>
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Quoting TED<br>
<br>
"I will close with one last point, and that is the Internet got<br>
to where it is today with the system it has now. That is probably<br>
the most compelling argument that openness in WHOIS was the<br>
right choice in the beginning, as it has WORKED."<br>
<br>
I think this just shows how closed minded you are. I have never heard<br>
any intelligent argument that states that just because something<br>
worked it was the best way. I happen to think there is probably always<br>
a better way which is exactly why we have the processes in place that<br>
we do to change things. It is even possible that the internet would be<br>
much better than it is today had some changes been made. Does that<br>
mean I am criticizing the people who worked on it before and the<br>
advances they made? No not at all. I am simply trying to say that just<br>
because it worked and maybe worked in a good way does not mean it was<br>
the best way or that it is the best way for right now.<br>
<br>
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <<a href="mailto:tedm@ipinc.net">tedm@ipinc.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Leo Bicknell wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I supported the petition for this proposal. ?I did that not because<br>
>> I think this proposal is perfect, but because I think the issue is<br>
>> still important and relevant. ?Also, as I have already posted, I<br>
>> believe there is a new twist on it with respect to IPv6; which may<br>
>> not be discussed in this proposal but it can be a vehicle for this<br>
>> discussion.<br>
>><br>
>> However, this issue is not new. ?Some of our newer members may not<br>
>> understand that. ?If you were not around for the following discussions,<br>
>> you may want to look in the Policy Proposal Archive on ARIN's web<br>
>> site, and or reach some back PPML archives....<br>
>><br>
>> 2001-7: Bulk ARIN WHOIS Data<br>
>> 2002-4: Bulk Copies of ARIN's WHOIS<br>
>> 2002-8: Privatizing POC Information<br>
>> 2003-1: Required Performance of Abuse Contact<br>
>> 2003-2: Network Abuse<br>
>> 2003-5: Distributed Information Server Use Requirements<br>
>> 2003-9: WHOIS Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)<br>
>> 2003-11: Purpose and scope of WHOIS directory<br>
>> 2003-16: POC Verification<br>
>> 2004-4: Purpose and scope of ARIN WHOIS directory<br>
>> 2004-6: Privacy of Reassignment Information<br>
>> 2004-7: Residential Customer Privacy<br>
>> 2005-2: Directory Services Overhaul<br>
>> 2006-1: Residential Customer Privacy<br>
>> 2006-6: Bulk WHOIS agreement expiration clarification<br>
>> 2008-1: SWIP support for smaller than /29 assignements<br>
>> 2008-7: WHOIS Integrity Policy Proposal<br>
>><br>
>> If you want my take on the entire area; the vast majority of folks<br>
>> are unhappy with the current state of how SWIP/WHOIS/contact<br>
>> information is entered, used and distributed.<br>
><br>
> I have to disagree with that. ?Everyone on this list has not posted<br>
> regarding this issue. ?The people posting are the ones who are<br>
> unhappy and the ones (like myself) who think their objections are<br>
> unwarranted. ?But that is not the "majority of folks" ?It MIGHT be<br>
> the "majority of posters" but the posters on both sides are a<br>
> minority.<br>
><br>
> Also a lot of people are unhappy with how the information is entered<br>
> because they don't like the SWIP system and want to replace it with<br>
> some webinterface thing, they are not objecting the the actual principle<br>
> of making the data available.<br>
><br>
> Other RIR's don't seem to have a problem with this data being available<br>
> and I frankly think that the reason this topic generates attention<br>
> on this list is that because the list is heavy with people from North<br>
> America where so much of the Internet connectivity is provided privately by<br>
> corporations.<br>
><br>
> In the US there is this cultural mythos surrounding the perceived<br>
> "business underdog". ?People root for the small guy against his large<br>
> competitors, Microsoft for example was the darling of the hobby market<br>
> when it was slugging it out with IBM - then when Microsoft got big<br>
> everyone who loved it turned their back on it and now they love Apple,<br>
> (and are willing to pay 6 times for a computer for the privilege but<br>
> that's a different story). ?This despite the fact that the little guy<br>
> in some cases is providing an inferior product against the big guy.<br>
> (ie: the ipod shuffle vs the Sony MP3 walkman)<br>
><br>
> The people pushing these "cover your IPs" type proposals like to frame<br>
> it as David vs Goliath, due to this mythos, and it always gets good<br>
> press, the small struggling ISP being poached by the giant lumbering<br>
> ISP who sets their sales dogs to digging into WHOIS.<br>
><br>
> The reality is that there isn't significant customer loss from poaching<br>
> WHOIS from a business that is doing a good job and keeping it's customers<br>
> happy. ?Speaking from sales experience, trying to poach customers from a<br>
> WHOIS list is really, really dumb. ?A good salesman is<br>
> going to define a territory of customers, figure out how to serve<br>
> them, then go after them. ?A territory is commonality between<br>
> customers. ?Some companies use geography as a criteria, some<br>
> use type of business. Some use connections and their customer<br>
> territory looks senseless from an outside observer until you<br>
> find out that all their customers golf at the same course as the<br>
> salesman. ?NO territory I ever heard of a salesman using ever<br>
> mapped neatly onto TCP/IP ranges. ?ISPs do not customarily<br>
> group all their medical customers into the same IP range, or<br>
> all their construction customers, or all their customers who<br>
> run webservers. ?You could get a better lead<br>
> list from pointing a blunderbuss at the phone book and pulling<br>
> the trigger and going after anything still readable than by<br>
> pulling WHOIS data. ?At least, with the phone book method, they<br>
> would all live in the same area.<br>
><br>
>> ?However, even though<br>
>><br>
>> perhaps 80% of the people are unhappy with the current system, no<br>
>> more than 20% of the people can agree on any "solution", and thus<br>
>> the status quo always wins.<br>
>><br>
>> However I think the sheer number of proposals is proof that the<br>
>> status quo is not working for a lot of people.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> The sheer number of proposals is frankly because the opponents<br>
> of the status quo are arguing on principle, as are the supporters<br>
> of the status quo. ?It is an argument that YOU, Leo, aren't going to<br>
> solve, nor am I. ?It is like the Abortion argument in the US, it's<br>
> a fight based on principles on both sides, and it isn't going to<br>
> end, ever, no matter what the law is written to say.<br>
><br>
> If the status quo was that ARIN covered everything then there<br>
> would be just as many proposals to OPEN the database.<br>
><br>
>> Sadly though, the discussion has already devolved into useless<br>
>> analogies, attacks, lack of understanding, lack of empathy, and<br>
>> down right cynicism. ?Everyone is sure there is some ulterior motive<br>
>> involved, to hide a spammer, make money, or game the system. ?Rather<br>
>> than thinking about Joe Average, everyone is talking about the one<br>
>> corner case that will always exist, no matter what system we have<br>
>> in place.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> I am sorry you are so cynical yourself to say that but that<br>
> just isn't true.<br>
><br>
> As someone else posted this topic is fundamentally an argument<br>
> of the Good of the Many outweighing the Good of the Few, or<br>
> the One. ?(for those Trekkies out there) ?Yes, for some<br>
> "corner cases" it might be beneficial to privatize their<br>
> SWIPS, if for no other reason than they lack the creativity of<br>
> coming up with baloney names for SWIP entries (ie: Universal<br>
> Exports, Binford Tools, and the like) ?But the community would<br>
> suffer, as there is currently NO procedure for routine audits<br>
> by the RIR of the SWIP data, nor is there ever likely to be,<br>
> and almost certainly nobody on this list would be willing to<br>
> see their fees increase to pay for one. ?IPv6 does not change<br>
> this because the issue here is reachability of the other guy who<br>
> is spamming/attacking/whatever to you vs reachability of the<br>
> other guy so you can waste your time trying to poach him.<br>
><br>
> History is replete with examples of this kind of argument, over<br>
> a great many topics, and there's no shortage of them today.<br>
> People get emotional and come up with wild scenarios to prove<br>
> their point because this is how these arguments work. ?And usually<br>
> there is not much movement from either side - which is why the<br>
> AC tried dropping this proposal in the first place.<br>
><br>
> I will close with one last point, and that is the Internet got<br>
> to where it is today with the system it has now. ?That is probably<br>
> the most compelling argument that openness in WHOIS was the<br>
> right choice in the beginning, as it has WORKED.<br>
><br>
> Ted<br>
><br>
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