Whois may be scrapped to break deadlock ANICK JESDANUN, Globe and Mail (Oct 29)
Whois is the 411 of the internet, containing the registrations for domains and some personal contact information.
"Law-enforcement officials and Internet service providers use it to fight fraud and hacking. Lawyers depend on it to chase trademark and copyright violators. Journalists rely on it to reach Web site owners. And spammers mine it to send junk mailings for Web site hosting and other services."
But there are privacy concerns and the parties can seem to agree on a way to resolve the problems.
"The disagreements are over "who gets to see it (and) how can we protect people's privacy while at the same time making accurate information available to those who need it," said Vint Cerf, ICANN's chairman."
Posted by Gwen at October 29, 2007 07:16 PM