1. Private Information Handling at APNIC Database
Database SIG at
APNIC Open Policy Meeting
October 25th , 2000
MAEMURA Akinori
IP Address Working Group, JPNIC

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Contents
Current situation on privacy of personal information
Introduction of JPNIC’s Policy for Personal Information Handling
Proposal
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Circumstances
More personal/residential users are connected to the internet after cable access or ADSL got popular
Even for such users, once IP address is assigned, the information about the assignee has to be registered on whois database and is made public to the Internet for operational purpose.
Consequently, private information of residential assignees is disclosed without precaution
Postal Address, Phone Number
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Two Standpoints
Point-Of-Contact has to be looked up for the troubleshooting
RFC Building a Network Information Services Infrastructure
Private Information has to be handled carefully
OECD Guideline, 1980
EU discussion minutes, 1995
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Trouble Occurred
Several assignees of JPNIC encountered some problems related to the way of handling assignee’s private information.
JPNIC stops disclosure of fields containing private information on the requested basis if it meets prerequisite defined by JPNIC
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Developing the Policy
JPNIC DBPI-TF -- Database Publishing Issues Taskforce
Minimizing information disclosure to those sufficient for the Internet Operation
Definition and announce of the criteria and the purpose for the disclosure of information
Definition of the procedure and the criteria for per-request disclosure of specific private information
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JPNIC’s Policy
JPNIC Policy on the Handling of Domain Name Information and IP Address Information
The background can be referred at
The Policy will be enforced in this November
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Minimizing information disclosure to those sufficient for the Internet Operation
What we want for the purpose of Internet operation are
the assignee of the IP address
the information
that enables the Internet operators
to have a contact
with the assignee’s engineer
who can fix their network,
when their network is down
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9. Undisclosed/disclosed items at JPNIC DB (1)
Network Object
Items
exhibited/secured a
IP Network Address
Index b
Network Name
Disclosed F
Organization J
Postal Address
Undisclosed M
Admin-c
Disclosed(JPNIC-handle) N
Tech-c P
Name server Y
Notify-to
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10. Undisclosed/disclosed items at JPNIC DB (2)
Host Object
Nothing changed
Items
Exhibited/Secured a
Host name
Index B
IP Address
Disclosed C
IPv6 address N
Tech-c
Disclosed(JPNIC-handle) Y
Notify-to
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11. Undisclosed/disclosed items at JPNIC DB (3)
Person Object
Items
Admin-c
Tech-c a
JPNIC handle
Index c
Name
Disclosed D
address G
Organization J
Postal Address
Undisclosed L
Division N
Title O
Phone number P
Fax number Y
Notify-to
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12. Comparison with other RIRs
ARIN
Undiscloses street addresses for residential users
RIPE NCC
No actions are taken for this issue
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13. Current situation with APNIC DB
LIR and NIR have to send whois objects of the IP numbers they assign/allocate
Documented and regulated　
APNIC exhibits the objects as they received
JPNIC sends objects including hidden items.
It is INCONSISTENT that the items hidden at JPNIC are exhibited at APNIC
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Proposal to APNIC
Review the current policy defining the information to be disclosed
Take the minimum information disclosing policy like JPNIC
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Thank you
Private Information Handling
at APNIC Database
Database SIG at APNIC Open Policy Meeting
October 25th 2000
MAEMURA Akinori
IP Working Group, JPNIC
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