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prop-162: WHOIS Privacy

Start here for the proposal-by-proposal record: what changed, why it mattered, who argued for what, how positions evolved, what was decided, and where the evidence still has gaps.

Source facts

Policy ID
prop-162
RIR
APNIC
Official status
Unknown
Normalized status
Unknown
Introduced
Jan 13, 2025
Last source update
Oct 14, 2026
Coverage
Partial

Who actually shaped the debate?

4Total participants
3Discussion contributors
1Formal actors
3Discussion messages
3Effective participants
100%Top-five discussion share
2People covering 50%
3People covering 80%

BTW Analysis

BTW Analysis

What changed

The only verified change is that APNIC prop-162 was introduced on 13 January 2025. No subsequent revision, consensus determination, adoption, rejection, withdrawal, abandonment, implementation, or effective-date event is supplied.

What the debate was really about

The substance of any debate cannot be determined from the supplied record because no proposal provisions, messages, arguments, participant stances, or affected interests are provided.

Decision vs debate

The record establishes an introduction event but no decision outcome and no captured discussion. Zero messages, zero discussion participants, zero active days, and no stance records mean neither consensus nor the absence of debate across all possible forums can be inferred.

Participation concentration

The dataset records one formal actor and no discussion participants. The zero message shares, zero HHI, zero effective-participant count, and zero core-participant counts arise in a zero-message setting, so they do not show either concentrated or broadly distributed participation.

Chokepoint analysis

No procedural, institutional, or participant chokepoint can be established. The single recorded formal actor accounts for the aggregate participant total, but the absence of discussion and decision data does not establish control over the proposal or its outcome.

Uncertainties

  • No chronology after the introduction event is supplied, so the proposal's current procedural or implementation status is unknown.
  • Zero captured messages and zero active days do not prove that no discussion occurred in meetings, mailing lists, consultations, or other forums outside the dataset.
  • The proposal text, objective, operational mechanism, revisions, affected interests, and participant motivations are not supplied.
  • No stance timelines or debate arguments are supplied, so support, opposition, persuasion, and coalition formation cannot be assessed.
  • The participation metrics are tied to source revision a4632b36e96a4c2ee9853c8c4cc20ee1f729e034cffc7badc87326dfa897230a and the computation timestamp 2026-08-27T12:38:45.482225+00:00.
  • The supplied Doctrine package establishes only a partial official position for this subject and does not support a doctrinal judgment about the proposal's merits or outcome.
  • The chronology associates the introduction with an APNIC page, which under the supplied Doctrine may be treated as an APNIC institutional source or claim but not as controlling authority evidence.

Policy evolution

Debate timeline

  1. Introduced

    Introduced

    Source facts ↗

  2. Public discussion

    [sig-policy] Copyright and Acceptable Use Terms for APNIC Directory Services

    3 Discussion messages · 3 Entities

    Source facts ↗

Entities

Freshness: Stale
  1. Unknown · Public sources found; identity verification pending
    Discussion messages1
    First activityAug 11, 2026
    Last activityAug 11, 2026
    First explicit stanceSupport with changes
    Latest explicit stanceSupport with changes
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies0
  2. Bikram Shrestha · Identity unresolved
    Discussion messages1
    First activityAug 12, 2026
    Last activityAug 12, 2026
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies5
  3. Christopher Hawker
    Discussion messages1
    First activityAug 11, 2026
    Last activityAug 11, 2026
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies4
  4. Jonathan Brewer
    Discussion messages0
    First activityUnknown
    Last activityUnknown
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyNo explicit position stated
    Other policies1
    Freshness: Stale

    Last research attempt: Sep 11, 2026

    Identity verified: Sep 11, 2026

    · Historical
    Current status Implemented Authors Jonathan Brewer Relevant forum Policy SIG Previous versions prop-167-v001 Secretariat impact assessment This Impact assessment is for prop-167-v002 1.
    www.apnic.net

    Verified public profiles

    Discussion messages
    0
    First activity
    Unknown
    Last activity
    Unknown
    First explicit stance
    Unknown
    Latest explicit stance
    Unknown
    Stance changes
    0
    Viewpoint consistency
    No explicit position stated
    Other policies
    1

    First explicit stance: Unknown → Latest explicit stance: Unknown · Stance changes: 0

    Viewpoint consistency: No explicit position stated

    1. Aug 13, 2026

      author

      Source facts ↗
    Per-policy stance timelines:prop-162 · Unknown · No explicit position statedprop-167 · Unknown · No explicit position stated

    Total policy messages: 0

Sources and coverage

Official policy sources

Public discussion archives

  • apnic-sig-policy
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  • apnic-sig-policy
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  • apnic-afg-community-apnic.foundation
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  • apnic-apac-ict-women-apnic.net
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  • apnic-apnic-services-apnic.net
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  • apnic-apnic-talk-lists.apnic.net
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  • apnic-apnic-transfers-apnic.net
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  • apnic-bgp-stats-lists.apnic.net
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  • apnic-community-elections-apnic.net
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  • apnic-diversity-in-leadership-apnic.net
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  • apnic-icp-2review-apnic.net
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  • apnic-measurement-apnic.net
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  • apnic-mvnog-apnic.net
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  • apnic-orbit-discuss-apnic.net
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  • apnic-pngnog-apnic.net
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  • apnic-security-discuss-apnic.net
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  • apnic-sig-cooperation-apnic.net
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  • apnic-sig-guidelines-review-apnic.net
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  • apnic-sig-nir-lists.apnic.net
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  • apnic-sig-routingsecurity-apnic.net
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  • apnic-user-feedback-group-apnic.net
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  • apnic-wg-pdr-apnic.net
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  • apnic-youth4ig-lists.apnic.net
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Coverage

Partial
Earliest captured: Jun 1, 2001
Latest captured: Oct 14, 2026

Freshness

Freshness: Stale · Last refresh:

Known gaps

  • www.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-sig-policy: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-sig-policy: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • www.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • conference.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-academy-talk-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-afg-community-apnic.foundation: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apac-ict-women-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apix-chair-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apix-secretary-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apix-treasurer-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apnic-alumni-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apnic-announce-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apnic-foundation-discuss-apnic.foundation: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apnic-services-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apnic-talk-lists.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
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  • apnic-bgp-stats-lists.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-community-elections-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-community-events-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-diversity-in-leadership-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-ianaxfer-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-icp-2review-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-measurement-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-mvnog-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-orbit-discuss-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-pngnog-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-security-discuss-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-sig-cooperation-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-sig-guidelines-review-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-sig-nir-lists.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-sig-routingsecurity-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-user-feedback-group-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-wg-pdr-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-youth4ig-lists.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.