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The ALAC has studied the WHOIS Misuse Study commissioned by ICANN and executed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University over the period.  We note the study has returned findings that align with individual experience of At-Large constituents plus the evidence of widespread occurrence has validated similar research executed undertaken by At-Large connected researchers.  The question for the ALAC has never been whether misuse was factual. Rather, it was whether the level of misuse warranted measures to reduce or eliminate and, what would be appropriate responses from policy or operational perspectives, in context.

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The ALAC will support any useful measure to abate misuse, including but not limited to WHOIS data anti-harvesting techniques.  And even as the study identifies some gTLDs as more susceptible than others, we believe that adopting the best practices from every domain that have proven and useful anti-harvesting implementations of WHOIS data would be a useful beginning for a coordinated response from registries and registrars.       

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The ALAC has studied the WHOIS Misuse Study commissioned by ICANN and executed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University over the period.  We note the study has returned findings that align with individual experience of At-Large constituents plus the evidence of widespread occurrence has validated similar research executed by At-Large connected researchers.  The question for the ALAC has never been whether misuse was factual. Rather, it was whether the level of misuse warranted measures to reduce or eliminate and, what would be appropriate responses from policy or operational perspectives, in context.

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