<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 29, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Aaron Wendel wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><blockquote type="cite">You can support the idea but not the proposal. I definitely don't<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">support the proposal. I am willing to look at the idea, however. If<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">you can make a logical argument that the current policy as written<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">makes it impossible for ISP's to exclude private individuals or<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">residences in certain circumstances, I'd support a modification to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">current policy.<br></blockquote><br>I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Residential customers are already<br>covered under a separate policy allowing them to be deemed "private". My<br>proposal provides equal protection for hosted and collocated customers.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote>Except that it does not. It provides somewhat similar protection (if you could</div><div>call it that), but, on very different terms.</div><div><br></div><div>The proposal as written allows an ISP to exclude the contact data for their</div><div>customers solely at the ISP's discretion and allows the ISP to obfuscate</div><div>ALL contact data, not merely the name and street address.</div><div><br></div><div>The proposal makes this ability to obfuscate the data from public view</div><div>solely at the discretion of the ISP and not their customer.</div><div><br></div><div>Claiming that it extends the same protections as the residential</div><div>customer privacy is disingenuous at best, and, potentially very</div><div>misleading to those less familiar with the terms of the two policies.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div></body></html>