Whois compliance models, and the confusion of the PC

[Stephanie Perrin]

I don't agree.  I think we should endorse the ECO approach.  Very 
thorough analysis, and is in touch with reality.

What have you got against tiered access?

cheers Steph


On 2018-01-28 22:24, Mueller, Milton L wrote:
>
> MM here reporting from the further reaches of the policy committee.
>
> So here as far as I can tell is the only response I have seen on the 
> debate between models 3 and 2b in the PC:
>
> >I will try to get the revised comments on the models that have been
>
> >submitted in before I run for the plane at 2 EDT...but that may not
>
> >happen.  The legal analysis will come next week, it is a lot harder and
>
> >more complex....but I want to get my questions on the table.  It will be
>
> >a long time before this is over....
>
> >
>
> >We need to endorse the ECO model very strongly, in my view.  While
>
> >option 3 looks good, it is rather unworkable.
>
> WHY is model 3 “unworkable?” No  explanation provided. In fact this is 
> the inverse of the truth: Model 2b is literally and provably 
> unworkable because it requires ICANN to set up a system of 
> certification in a matter of 3 months, which everyone should be able 
> to see is unworkable. Insofar as such an “interim” solution gets done 
> in such an unworkably short period of time, it will only happen if it 
> is dictated unilaterally by ICANN staff.
>
> Folks, we have spent the last _/15 years/_ trying to get something 
> like model 3 as a privacy-respecting approach to Whois, and now that 
> it is within our grasp, I cannot believe that people we thought were 
> privacy advocates are telling us it is “unworkable.” WTF? Why is 
> anyone in NCSG trying to get us trapped into an interim solution that 
> will be dictated behind the scenes by special interests and will allow 
> trademark lawyers and LEAs all kinds of loopholes to get access to 
> Whois data that they shouldn’t have? This “interim” solution will 
> almost certainly become a permanent one. If we have learned anything 
> about how icANN works.
>
> Any sincere believers in model 2b should accept reality and say let’s 
> do Model 3 in the short term and then work out a viable certification 
> system long term.
>
> Right now, let us cohere behind model 3 it is both the right solution 
> and our strongest bargaining position heading into the future.
>
> Dr. Milton L. Mueller
>
> Professor, School of Public Policy
>
> Georgia Institute of Technology
>
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