Jay - actually - the driving force behind the registrars doing it right now is a new ICAAN policy (actually 2003) that required registrars to do this). The idea behind the House bill was more aimed at the terrorists (go figure they'd find another use for that word) being able to host their sites in the US with fake whois - and the Justice Dept not being able to track them - at least its the excuse they're using - among a few others like identity theft and copywrite law - its amazing the ways they take when want to drive the 1st amendment into the ground
