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Re: IETF privacy policy - still a bad idea

Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv> Wed, 21 July 2010 23:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: IETF privacy policy - still a bad idea
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On Jul 21, 2010, at 7:30 PM, John R. Levine wrote:

>> Exceptionalism really does not work very well as a legal strategy.
>
> I'm not saying that the IETF is unique in the universe, but I am  
> saying that all of the arguments advanced so far for privacy  
> policies are relevant to corporations with employees and revenue and  
> contacts, which the IETF definitely is not.
>
> Someone pointed out that the IAOC, which does have a legal  
> existence, could find a privacy policy useful, which is not  
> unreasonable, but I do think that anyone who proposes such a policy  
> should at least be familiar with the (non)structure of the IETF and  
> identify what aspects of it apply to what four-letter bits.

The IETF Trust is a legal entity, as is ISOC. I am not aware of any  
reasons for considering the IAOC as having a legal existence.

Regards
Marshall

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