Re: [Shutup] Proposed Charter for the "SMTP Headers Unhealthy To User Privacy" WG

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

SM <[e-mail]> writes:

> An attack on organization is a security issue; it isn't a privacy
> issue.  The privacy issue is about mail-related metadata which can be
> collected by state surveillance agencies.  Will the proposed working
> group attempt to fix that?

As I pointed out on the perpass list when the Received: field draft was first
posted, there are definitely privacy issues associated with Received: fields, 
but metadata collection by state actors really isn't one of them. Why bother
with Received: fields when you can simply collect transaction logs from
ISPs/MSPs.

And unless I'm missing something, the generation and collection of
transaction logs is far beyond the purview of the IETF.

				Ned