[Ietf-not43] New EC directive over directories

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:46:22AM +0200,
 Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@sidn.nl> wrote 
 a message of 47 lines which said:

> was adopted on 12 July 2002 and requires implementation in Member States 
> by 31 October 2003.

In France, the law requires more or less the same thing for now many
years.

>     * introduces new information and consent requirements on entries in
>       publicly available directories, including a requirement that
>       subscribers are informed of all the usage possibilities of
>       publicly available directories - e.g. reverse searching from a
>       telephone number in order to obtain a name and address;

Not a big deal. According to our lawyer who studied our whois service,
the "consent" is obtained when the registrant clicks on "Register my
domain name". The "information" is not always done properly by the
registrars but it should.