Re: What does a privacy policy mean?

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>]

I would prefer it if the IETF stopped publishing the phone numbers of
every IETF attendee for IETF 52, and quite possibly some other
meetings as well.

This would appear to me to be a privacy issue.


On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, John R. Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> What I don't understand is the amount of arm wrestling that happens on
>> this list.
>
> You're certainly right, there's a culture of nitpicking.  In this case I
> think some of the issues are nitpicks, while some are significant.  The IETF
> is very peculiarly organized, which suggests that it would need a somewhat
> peculiar privacy policy.  Here are some questions that I think are not nits:
>
> Although the IETF per se has no legal existence, ISOC, the IETF Trust, and
> perhaps other things I haven't noticed do.  How should an IETF privacy
> policy relate to the ISOC's existing privacy policy?  Does the IETF Trust
> need a privacy policy?
>
> The IETF potentially collects PII in various ways, including publication of
> Internet Drafts and RFCs, messages on mailing lists, registration info for
> meetings, and activities in meetings.  Meeting activites include paper
> documents (meeting attendance sheets), electronic session presentation
> material, oral session material which is transmitted over the voice feeds,
> jabber chats, and random traffic sent over meeting networks.  Are there
> other forms of PII?  Should a privacy policy treat them all the same, or
> differently?
>
> Some people have argued that it should be possible to participate in some or
> all IETF processes while remaining partly or completely anonymous.  Is this
> a reasonable expectation?
>
> R's,
> John
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