Re: IETF privacy policy - update

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@shinkuro.com> Thu, 08 July 2010 05:00 UTC

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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:00:49 -0400
From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@shinkuro.com>
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Subject: Re: IETF privacy policy - update
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 02:30:30PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:

>If the cost is near-zero

Given the number of messages so far, the denial of the antecedent is
already assured.  There is a clearly non-zero cost to this effort.
(This is not an argument about whether a privacy policy is needed;
it's simply an empirical observation about whether associated costs
are near-zero.)

A

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