APNIC Privacy of customer assignment records - implementation update

Thu Sep 23 22:06:51 UTC 2004

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:56:42 -0400, Joe Abley <jabley at isc.org> wrote:

> The proposal (which comes from APNIC members, not from APNIC staff)
> concerns non-portable addresses assigned to end-users. I don't know
> about anybody else, but I've never had any luck getting a response from
> people in that category anyway; it's invariably the upstream ISPs who
> respond (if anybody does), and there is no suggestion that their
> contact details will  be able to be hidden.
> 
> So what difference will it make?

Effectively none.
APNIC has always served out unverified and obvious garbage from their
whois servers.

What I find offensive is that they are now codifying this lack of
cooperation, and tacit complicity with spammers and other anonymous
miscreants as official policy.

matto