[db-wg] The DBTF needs your feedback!

I am attempting to fill out this apparently endless survey, and it's
obvious from the get-go that this whole thing was designed as an
artificial device to justify the deep-sixing of critical WHOIS
information which has traditionally been kept open and public.

I mean seriously, who designed these questions?

The way the questions are framed, they are all quite obviously
pushing one particular point of view, and one specific political
agenda, namely to excuse the hiding of information which has never
before been hidden... and which does not need to be hidden, except
for the benefit of criminals.

Here's an example of how to frame a question in a way that pre-
supposes one specific outcome:

    *)  QUESTION:  What would you prefer?

          1)  To be beaten and strangled to death?
          2)  To die of a horrible communicable infectious disease?
          3)  To be mercifully euthanized in your sleep?

How about (4) NONE OF THE ABOVE?  I'd actually like to go on living, if
it's all the same to you.

The survey questionare is positively jam packed with questions that are
framed in this same manner... questions that, in effect, ask "How much
information should we hide?"

How about NONE OF THE ABOVE?

Here is a concrete example from the questionaire:

   * 16. Rank this contact information from most (1) to least (3) important
     to facilitate Internet operations in the RIPE Database:

      Email address
      Phone number
      Fax number

Well, hardly anyone ever sends FAXes anymore, so that one is a no-brainer.
But the way the question has been formulated, it is obvious that *someone*
wants to get rid of either phone numbers or email addresses in the contact
data for various assigned resources, and that answers to this carefully
crafted (and methodologically bogus) questionare are going to be used as
a lame excuse to do that.

I, for one, have seen this movie before...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6c3WvwbAw

This kind of too-clever-by-half way of formulating questions in a way so
as to get some desired set of pre-determined answers is both shameful and
really beneath the dignity of RIPE.

I suggest that the whole thing should be thrown out and replaced by the
following single question:  "Are you in favor of hiding the traditionally
open WHOIS infornmation?"  Then the folks who are in favor of allowing
criminals in the RIPE region to hide behind GDPR can simply out-vote the
rest of us and we can then wrpa up this entire sham process far more
quickly and efficiently, saving time for all concerned, since the outcome
has already been determined.


Regards,
rfg


P.S. Whoever designed this survey form also does not believe, apparently,
that any participant has the right to NOT have an opinion on any single
one of the myriad of questions set forth.  Do not pass GO and do not
collect $200 UNLESS you have given answers even to the questions for
which you have no opinion.

P.P.S.  Apparently, there is no constraint whatsoever on anyone who wishes
to skew the results of this "survey" by simply filling in the form several
thousand times.

It's 2021.  People are still running online surveys that can be trivially
gamed??

<<me -- shakes head>>