I have just done my internet search 101 class that introduces students to the wonders of WHOIS, and guess what – yes, pull out the headline pun – WHOIS could be WHOIS-tory, WHOIS could be WHOWAS etc etc.

Here is the AP story. If you read it, you’ll notice that, to use one of my favourite Americanisms, this dog won’t hunt.

some privacy advocates are proposing scrapping the system entirely…

OK, so they are not really going to succeed…what happens next?

The so-called “sunset” proposal is expected to come up Wednesday before a committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, a key Internet oversight agency.

But it isn’t really going to happen is it? So the nub of the story?

It will have a tough time winning approval — and could create chaos.

The non-paradox of news!