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[Nick Roy <nroy AT internet2.edu>]

On 6/1/18 4:26 AM, Rhys Smith wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2018, at 10:53, Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at> wrote:
>>
>> Since most/all of us will only ever be dealing with *organisations* --
>> not indvidual natural persons -- as domain/namespace owners there
>> should be no reason for WHOIS info to be redacted. GDPR does not
>> protect company info, only natural persons’.
> 
> True.
> 
> 
>> But of course ignorance, overraction and stupidity have killed other
>> good things, so it might well be the case that WHOIS will become much
>> less usage in the future for all the wrong reasons.
> 
> And even more true-er.
> 
> Unfortunately we’ve already run into this - in the .uk namespace at least.

This is one reason InCommon now allows a domain control validation
process similar to what CAs require for OV certificates.

Nick

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