On the proposed guidance

[Mueller, Milton L]

I can't believe Stephanie is advocating this position. Allowing the registrar to overrule the registrant is antithetical to everything NCSG is supposed to stand for. Furthermore, the guidance as currently drafted does not mean the registrant makes a choice and the Rr can overrule it, but the Rr can unilaterally make the choice for them.

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I actually think that since the contracted parties carry the liability for making a mistake in this distinction, the registrars should be able to overrule the registrant.  This is particularly important if the jurisdiction where the data is held respects the rights of employees to protect their personal info, whilst the person registering the domain name on behalf of the company/org may be unaware of that situation.

this is a very complex question and I do not support encouraging small entities to attempt to answer it.  It is heaping added legal costs on the folks we purport to represent.

Stephanie Perrin


On 2021-03-24 11:12 a.m., Mueller, Milton L wrote:
I was reading through two documents setting out in detail the proposed guidance on legal/natural.
There seems to be more than one Google doc on this and I am not sure which one is the latest or most official, though I suspect it is the one with various people's comments crawling all over it.

I was pretty supportive of the Guidance overall. I had one problem with it, though.
I liked the description of HOW the differentiation needed to take place. But in describing WHEN differentiation takes place and WHO would do it, it sets out 3 "high level scenarios".
The first two are ok. The third scenario (listed as #5 in the document) is that the Registrar does it for the RNH, based on "inferences."

That option just doesn't fly for those of us representing RNH's in this process. We cannot have a registrant's disclosure status or person type determined FOR them by someone else. If we can strike that part of the guidance, I think we can be on our way to a much broader consensus.

Dr. Milton L Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Public Policy
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