[PC-NCSG] Report from Meeting with Registrars

[Wendy Seltzer]

I met with the Registrars constituency for a brief discussion of NCSG's
work.  We talked about issues on the NCSG plate, including
RAA/LEA/WHOIS, and before Council (RCRC/IOC), and identified some shared
interests between the constituencies.

They were very interested in the human rights framework, and suggested
we also work on the issue of when registrant disclosure is appropriate
from a privacy or proxy provider.  I proposed that we might form an
informal Registrar-NCSG working group to work on registrant-disclosure
best practices (obligations and procedures), to go beyond "due process"
and "national law."  They suggested looking at tests for disclosure used
among law enforcement agencies.

On WHOIS validation, we can be particularly helpful in raising concerns
with higher price-barriers to domain registration and concerns with the
global impact of those rules -- what if validation makes whole sections
of the world go dark? What if a points-system for validation is used to
censor speakers?  Can we separate privacy from access?

--Wendy

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Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
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