[db-wg] 2022-01 New Version Policy Proposal (Personal Data in the RIPE Database)

In message <579e6eed-f28e-bf83-f111-a69b2be9a04d at ripe.net>, 
Angela Dall'Ara <adallara at ripe.net> wrote:

>RIPE policy proposal 2022-01, "Personal Data in the RIPE Database" is 
>now available for discussion again.
>
>The goal of this proposal is to allow the publication of verified 
>Personal Data in the RIPE Database only when they are justified by its 
>purpose.


I object to the policy proposal for reasons that I have laid out at some
length on the Anti-Abuse Working Group's mailing list.

Not that it matters.  I'm sure that neither my vote nor those of the other
folks who have also expressed reservations about this proposal won't count,
and that the backers of this misguided proposal will declare consensus
come hell or high water anyway.

Nobody is asking for this, and nobody is demaning that RIPE hide valuable
WHOIS data that has always been visible since the beginning of time,
except for a couple of people who are harboring misplaced fetishes for
privacy over transparency.  Their time would be better invested in
solving actual problems, rather than imagined ones.

As I have said on the Anti-Abuse Working Group's mailing list, any
member concerned about concealing their mailing address either (a) is
up to no good or else (b) may easily and cheaply achieve the desired
goal FOR THEMSELVES by renting a cheap P.O. box.  (Any member who is
unable to locate a supplier of cheap rental P.O. boxes local to them
is probably too incompetent to qualify as a RIPE member anyway.)


Regards,
rfg