Deletion of .de domain objects

Dear Sabine,

On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:39:51AM +0200, Sabine Dolderer/Denic wrote:
> speaking for DENIC ;-). I will try to comment about the reasons why we 
> have (or even must) done the migration.

Please explain why you remove the well-working maintainer scheme.

> There were a lot of pressure from our dataprotection office that due to 
> our business we pubish data (or we urge provider to puplish data of their 
> customers) which is not allowed to publish under German data protection 
> laws.

It is allowed. Every customer agreed that his information is published
in a public database.

> Mainly the existence of the inverse query feature and the publishing 
> of data like phone-, faxnumbers and email addresses was critisized.

Regarding phone, fax and email addresses: with this logic even
phone books would be illegal.

> I am really sorry that due to this discussion I get the feeling
> that people felt we are doing things without thinking or good
> reasons or just to make them angry.

Please explain why this was all negotiated behind closed doors
(RIPE-Meetings and hostmaster-l ARE closed doors) although it has
a wide impact on ALL domain customers and non-DENIC-members
(resellers).


Best regards,

Daniel Roesen
Entire Systems NOC

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