Re: wg-chairs: policies for access to mailing list memberships ?

Jay Daley <jay@ietf.org> Wed, 04 December 2019 21:20 UTC

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From: Jay Daley <jay@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: wg-chairs: policies for access to mailing list memberships ?
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 10:20:11 +1300
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Toerless

> On 5/12/2019, at 10:12 AM, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:
> 
> Is there any recommended or published or documented policy for IETF WGs
> (and non-WG mailing lists) whether or not the email addresses of members
> are accessible by at least other members ?

Yes. The IETF Privacy Statement https://ietf.org/privacy-statement/ is clear on this, they should be published. 

> (aka: i use the term "public" differently than what the mailman
> interface does. To me the list of members is public as long as subscription
> are uncontrolled/unrestricted and the list is made available at least to members.
> Mailman still calls this private.)
> 
> I just tried randomly two WG mailing lists and got different results. One allowed
> me to retrieve the list, the other not. And obviously, this is
> configurable in the admin interface, but i do not remember whether i
> haver touched this for my WGs mailing lists.

I have it on my list to audit the lists setups for a number of reasons and will add this to that. 

Jay

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> Thanks
>    Toerless
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