Re: privacy

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

>> in idle moments, i am trying to understand the mechanisms and
>> poilicy useful/needed by a swedish registrant, using a registrar
>> located in brasil, to register in a domain which has its registry
>> in say american or new zealand juristiction.  and, of course, the
>> registrant has personal preferences, "don't publish my fax number."
> Does it seem that a simple, boolean "do not disclose" flag on each 
> field is sufficient to accommodate the privacy requirements of that 
> scenario?

one can always imagine more complex scenarios.  but the
per-attribute dnp approach seems to be one of those which covers
the important cases, certainly the current ones, with a simple
mechanism.  it's like one of those 90% solutions with 10% of the
cost.

but if you have a real, current, useful, and needed case it does
not cover, now would certainly be a good time to describe it.

randy