Well, personally for me, I use secret registration because I was tired of all the spam I got. Spammers scrape whois data for email addresses. I not trying to hide my identity on the web, I just don't like spam. I'm not some dark evil force. Cheers, Keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Kulawiec" <rsk@gsp.org> To: <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 25 2018 09:18:54 AM Subject: Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 07:31:20PM +0000, Naslund, Steve wrote:
I don't see why there should not be a way to know who is publishing data on the Internet.
+1 for this and what follows. Allow me, please, to piggyback on it with a similar thought:
With great power, comes great responsibility.
There is no difference between someone who runs a global network or a worldwide collection of datacenters, and someone who runs a tiny web server or a single domain, other than scale. Both of them enjoy extraordinary power, power that was difficult to imagine even for people with reliable and accurate crystal balls, a quarter century ago. They both operate a piece of the Internet that we share.
And they are both responsible to each other -- whatever that means in context. They have to be accountable, because when people are unaccountable we get spam factories and network hijacking and DoS attacks and all the other myriad crap that chews up enormous amounts of time and money.
This responsibility, this accountability isn't for everyone. And that's fine. But anyone who isn't up for it *should not sign up to operate a piece of the Internet*. There are a zillion other ways to participate without becoming an operator.
---rsk