[anti-abuse-wg] Analysis of the Legal Framework and Procedures Proposed by the Data Protection Task Force

 >the IP Resource Registry environment is the wrong tree to bark at,

I have no idea what points you are trying to make in your replies. You 
seem to want to nitpick certain words in some sort of incoherent fashion 
without making any actual point about the issue at hand.

Ripe posted a link to a report about putting restrictions on the whois 
data because they say use is restricted by law.  I pointed out that 
commercial companies are using this data anyway.  In the case of 
DomainTools.com they have been around for many years and anyone who has 
used the site knows they compile all this data and make reports.  They 
focus on domain data but they also use the IP whois data (which you can 
easily see if you use their site).   I can't tell exactly what the law 
is and I don't know exactly what commercial companies are doing with the 
data.  Ripe put out the report and I am asking how it relates to the 
practical situation of what is happening in the real world as there 
seems to be disconnect.