Re: Blue Sheet Change Proposal

Eric Rescorla wrote:
> At Thu,  3 Apr 2008 20:10:12 -0400 (EDT),
> Scott O. Bradner wrote:
>   
>> Ole guessed
>>     
>>> My understanding is that the blue sheet serves mainly as a record of 
>>> "who was in the room" which I think is largely used to plan room 
>>> capacities for the next meeting.
>>>       
>> the "blue sheets" are required as part of the basic openness  
>> process in a standards organization - there is a need to know 
>> "who is in the room" (see RFC 2418 section 3.1 for the actual
>> requirement)
>>
>> the blue sheets become part of the formal record of the standards
>> process and can be retrieved if needed (e.g. in a lawsuit) but are not
>> generally made available 
>>
>> as pointed out by Mark Andrews - email addresses can be useful in 
>> determining the actual identity of the person who scrawled their 
>> name on the sheet - so it is an advantage to retain them
>>
>> I'm trying to understand how the blue sheets contribute in any
>> significant way to the spam problem - someone whould have to be 
>> surreptitiously copying  them or quickly writing down the email 
>> addresses - both could happen but do not seem to be all that 
>> likely there are far more efficient ways to grab email addresses
>>
>> so, my question is "is this a problem that needs solving"?
>>     
>
> The only reason I've heard is that some claim that people don't
> write their names on the blue sheets out of concern over spam.
>   
This doesn't seem very reasonable to me... if you post on any public
list -- like this one -- your likelihood for harvest is far, far higher. 
Let's
face it, in 2008 trying to have "private" email addresses as a spam defense
strategy is oh so 1998.

          Mike
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