Re: Difference between bulk access and individual access (Was: Policy for an Internet registry [EUreg #2656]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:13:27PM +0200,
 Rigo Wenning <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 60 lines which said:

> While there might be some difference in the ease of access, it is
> not too difficult to read out even restricted public accessible
> databases with some perl-script.

All the serious .com/.net/.org registrars, for instance, have
rate-limiting systems on their whois servers (as well as a
blacklisting of the offenders), in order to limit the risk of an
harvest of the database.

> Another alternative is to use the longdesc - attribute on <public> to
> describe the two different notions of public you mean. 

In the mean time, this is what we will do.
 
> But this might be an excellent input for the upcoming P3P Workshop in
> Dulles.

Yes :-)