Difference between bulk access and individual access (Was: Policy for an Internet registry [EUreg #2656]
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:05:49 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.p3p.policy |
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| Organization | NIC France |
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 06:19:19PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote a message of 20 lines which said: > I'm a lazy beginner in P3P and I would like to know if there is an > already existing policy file for an Internet domain > registry. According to our lawyer, there is an important legal difference between allowing public access to individual data (in the whois context, allowing the public to query the contacts of a domain name, giving the exact domain name) and bulk access (having the whole database at your disposition or a substantial part of it, may be through fuzzy search criteria such as the ability the find all domains matching a given string). In the French registry, at the present time, we therefore have a public whois (anyone can retrieve personal information from anywhere) but no bulk access at all (the database is not transferred and we patched the RIPE-NCC whois server to disallow some privacy-invading search features). Is there a way to express that in P3P? I plan to have several STATEMENT, with different RECIPIENT and expressing in the CONSEQUENCES element that one STATEMENT is for bulk access and the other for individual access only.