Re: draft-campbell-whois-00.txt

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Allen,

In responding to your note I've deleted the following lists:

	uwho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - not an ietf activity, see nsi and/or
		vgrs about their activity or activities,
	rfci-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxx - not a "whois" list, of any stripe,
	anti-spam-wg@xxxxxxxx - ditto.

I didn't add the !43 list. I think it is a legitimate ietf list, and several
people are on both the :43 and the !43 lists, and that list's animators can
forward your note should they choose.

The re-purpurposing you propose (or others have earlier imputed and you have
chosen to accept uncritically) to rfc954 (NICNAME/WHOIS) service, one of UCE
reduction, fails at least two tests:

	o this purpose could not have been stated prior to the initiation
	  of the CIX agreements,
and
	o this purpose is inconsistent with other normative texts, viz,

http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/dataprot/wpdocs/wp33en.htm

Cheers,
Eric