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
Organization NIC France
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.