Re: [apps-discuss] webfinger privacy question/suggestion

Agreed, doing too much in this particular draft would be a mistake. What I
want, however, is an incremental strip in the right direction. Right now,
hashing the identifier is not an option. It should be. Doing so would allow
more complex solutions to be built... solutions that take privacy,
confidentiality, authorization and authentication into full account and
allow us to span from "only sharing public data" to "sharing any data".

- James
On Oct 30, 2012 10:33 AM, "Evan Prodromou" <evan@status.net> wrote:

> There may be some use to having private sharing of discovery data.
>
> However, it's such a complicated and difficult problem, that trying to
> solve it with this version of Webfinger will effectively disallow public
> discovery.
>
> That is: it's a terrible morass, which will sink this effort.
>
> I suggest making a note in the security considerations that Webfinger
> links are visible to all, so don't put private stuff in there, full stop.
>
> -Evan
>
> On 12-10-30 01:18 PM, SM wrote:
>
>> At 03:16 30-10-2012, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
>>
>>> Have a look at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/**draft-iab-privacy-**
>>> considerations-04<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-privacy-considerations-04>
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, that draft was mentioned several months ago [1].
>>
>>  I have raised these privacy issues already last year. My comments got
>>> ignored.
>>>
>>
>> The following question was asked around 11 months ago [2]:
>>
>>   "What are you planning to do to ensure the draft properly addresses
>>    security, privacy, and netiquette issues?"
>>
>> The current plan seems to be: do nothing.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -sm
>>
>> 1. http://www.ietf.org/mail-**archive/web/apps-discuss/**
>> current/msg04747.html<http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg04747.html>
>> 2. http://www.ietf.org/mail-**archive/web/apps-discuss/**
>> current/msg03804.html<http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg03804.html>
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