Re: [ietf-provreg] EPP, data, actors, and access

[Edward Lewis <edlewis@arin.net>]

At 8:35 -0500 3/19/03, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:
> Oki all,
>
> We have two distinct proposals for a specification of access, data, and
> actors for EPP. External to EPP, but possibly relevant, is the existence
> of WHOIS (954).
You are expressing a very detailed understanding of the problem.  One 
of the issues I have with being this detailed is that it makes the 
chance of consensus less likely to achieve.

I can see the point that perhaps I want my telephone number to appear 
in WHOIS but not in DNS (to pick a perverse situation).

Let's do this as a first order approximation - is it possible to 
specify whether a data item (call it what you will) is not allowed to 
be repeated by the registry to any one other than the registrar that 
submitted it?  Is this something that is common enough to be 
understood by all?  Is this potentially sufficient to satisfy all 
people's needs here?

(Presuming the above meets with consensus, and then while sitting at 
proposed we discover that the mechanism is useless, dropping it or 
replacing it is always an option.  At that time, we will be able to 
point to emperical evidence of the goodness/badness of it.)
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