On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:21 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
when you have a monopoly, you do not have the slightest instinct to think of the effects of your actions on others.
Randy - Over the last decade, we've run multiple consultations with the community regarding changing Whois. These have either been the result of internal recommendations or suggestions from the ARIN community, and have covered a wide range of issues including the format of responses, the number of responses returned, the AUP for the Whois data, and more. All of the archives of these are on https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/index.html. If you have a particular suggestion for changing whois, please feel free to submit it. If you'd prefer a different process altogether for discussing changes, please let me know. FYI, /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN