Chris, FYI, the authentication process for LoTW uses the current address of the applicant as a way of ensuring that the request has in fact come from the licensee and not someone purporting to be the licensee. I didn't find any mention of this in the Comments, though perhaps you intended to include LoTW under the discussion of obtaining licensee information for QSLing purposes. 73, Greg, K0GW On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Christopher Imlay <w3kd.arrl@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings. With the approval of the Executive Committee and with helpful edits provided by Dave Sumner, Kay Craigie, Tom Frenaye, Dale Williams, and especially Maria Somma, the attached comments were filed just now electronically.

FCC proposed to delete historical license data (addresses basically) from its database, due to privacy concerns. It also asked for comment on the concept of eliminating current license data from the database as well.

Fortunately, there is an FCC decision that is very close to being on point on the issue of privacy of licensee data as you will see from the discussion in the comments.

We will report back on the thrust of other comments filed in the docket. There are only six comments filed at the moment (ARRL comments have not yet been logged) so this is not a momentous proceeding, but the due date is today.

Let me know any questions you have.

73, Chris W3KD

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