Re: [Rfced-future] Issue 147 [WGLC Review of the draft]

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

On 1/3/22 7:36 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 5:26 PM Brian E Carpenter 
> <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
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>     On 04-Jan-22 13:43, Eric Rescorla wrote:
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>     On one point only:
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>      > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 4:39 PM Peter Saint-Andre
>     <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
>     <mailto:[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     On 1/3/22 5:19 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
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>     ...
>      >      > Issue 147: This requires the RPC to keep certain records,
>      >      > e.g., of dialogue with document authors. Does that formally
>      >      > happen now, or is it just in people's e-mail folders?
>      >      > Do these records need to be public?
>      >      >
>     https://github.com/intarchboard/program-rfced-future/issues/147
>     <https://github.com/intarchboard/program-rfced-future/issues/147>
>     <https://github.com/intarchboard/program-rfced-future/issues/147
>     <https://github.com/intarchboard/program-rfced-future/issues/147>>
>      >      >
>     <https://github.com/intarchboard/program-rfced-future/issues/147
>     <https://github.com/intarchboard/program-rfced-future/issues/147>
>     <https://github.com/intarchboard/program-rfced-future/issues/147
>     <https://github.com/intarchboard/program-rfced-future/issues/147>>>
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>      >     It's not clear to me whether all record-keeping needs to be
>     public. It
>      >     might be acceptable that records are kept and available on
>     request if
>      >     needed (e.g., in case of an appeal).
>      >
>      >
>      > I think that would be OK. But do they keep records at all?
> 
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>     I can't answer that. But I suspect that there might, rarely, be matters
>     that would be considered private, especially for the Independent Stream
>     if publishing a proprietary spec. So any policy for making the records
>     public would need to allow privacy exceptions.
> 
> 
> Agreed. I don't actually have strong feelings about any of this and would
> be fine if we struck this text. I'm just trying to review it from the 
> perspective
> of "does this say what we want" and "can it be executed"?

Before we settle this issue, I'd like to hear from Jay (who is on 
vacation) or RPC folks.

Peter