[ncc-services-wg] 2012-08 New Policy Proposal (Publication of Sponsoring LIR for Independent Number Resources)

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:19:42AM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
>and you think you can reconcile secret sponsoring with the principal
>goal of accuracy and open visibility of registry data?

I don't consider absolute "openness" the principal goal. It may have 
been in 1992, when all participants were friendly academics and techies, 
unfortunately this is 2012 where every asshole with a grudge can use
various websites to find out each and every business relationship a LIR
has on a public, uncontrolled database.
LIRs are pretty unique in having to, perforce, make publically available
nearly all info about their business. 
There are other privacy issues with the database, however, these are
off-topic in this context.

rgds,
Sascha Luck