<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div><span class="color" style="color:rgb(29, 28, 29);">G'day folks.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="color" style="color:rgb(29, 28, 29);">APNIC allows bulk download access to WHOIS to more than 400 orgs. Some (like <a href="https://bgp.he.net/AS138041#_whois" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">he.net</a>) republish that data online. At least one bulk consumer and very likely many third parties have taken advantage of APNIC WHOIS data to spam network operators.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>prop-162-v001: WHOIS Privacy</b><span class="color" style="color:rgb(29, 28, 29);"> in discussion in the APNIC Policy SIG proposes that APNIC remove address, phone, fax-no, e-mail, and notify fields from Org, IRT, abuse-c and role objects from the dataset distributed to bulk consumers. It also proposes APNIC require existing re-publishers of that information to take it offline.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="color" style="color:rgb(29, 28, 29);">All contact detail will still be available via APNIC's website and WHOIS - services that are secure and rate limited.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="color" style="color:rgb(29, 28, 29);">I'm looking for comment and refinement of the proposal and have made a Google Doc available for that </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pdwo9L8cAhrew8s95j5fSw7r1L0kvpYUlMHjK3RHOKk/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pdwo9L8cAhrew8s95j5fSw7r1L0kvpYUlMHjK3RHOKk/edit?usp=sharing</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="color" style="color:rgb(29, 28, 29);">If you have data in the WHOIS and support the proposal, I'd appreciate your permission to tell the Policy-SIG list that you or your organisation are behind it.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="color" style="color:rgb(29, 28, 29);">Thanks,<br><br></span>Jon</div><div id="sig138682632"><div class="signature"><br></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>