RDS/WHOIS 2 Review Team Comments/ALAC Mechanisms

[Ayden Férdeline]

Thanks for this background, John. My immediate response to that argument, however, would be that there is a major difference between how and why land property records and domain name registration records are accessed: land ownership does not typically trigger unstable persons to threaten life and liberty. The exercise of free speech sometimes does.

Ayden

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On Wednesday, 21 November 2018 02:01, John Laprise <jlaprise at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
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> So how does ALAC reach consensus on positions? Largely by taking amongst ourselves. More importantly, how do ALAC members arrive at positions on issues that they believe reflects the sense of their RALO. Speaking for myself I do a lot of listening and reading inside and outside of policy circles. While I don’t conduct surveys, my region is blessed with many reputable and robust pollsters. Pew is good starting point. In addition, professionally I work as a market research manager for a nonprofit that isn’t Internet-centric but relies on the Internet to deliver content. In the course of my day job I hear a lot about the Internet from end users.
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> If I could offer one general insight from a NARALO point of view to answer Ayden’s question “One wonders why that is their priority.”, one view I’ve heard from many people is that they want the WHOIS to be open and public. The US is a litigious society but one where the government does not (for the most part) pose a visceral threat to life and limb. Many people map the idea of domain name ownership to property ownership. In the US, real estate might be held by a holding company but there are records and deeds. Public availability of such information is seen by many as essential to holding domain holders to account. Please note that I have my own views of this analogy and an awareness of NARALO’s unusual homogeneity.
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> Granted: there are LOTs of things to nit pick about the comment above but it is a generalization. We try to do our best to represent.
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> Best regards,
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> John Laprise
>
> NARALO ALAC Representative
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