Well, the openness process can't go over the law ;-) As said the solution is probably to tell the people that their details will be disclosed, before they register. Regards, Jordi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "JORDI PALET MARTINEZ" <jordi.palet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:52 AM Subject: Re: IETF registration and privacy ... > > > --On 21. januar 2004 01:32 +0100 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ > <jordi.palet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Despite that it has been commented in this list some time ago, I still > > see that the list of attendees is open, and there is no option, when > > registering to indicate if you want to be there or not ? > > > > I don't really mind myself, but we should have this option, at least this > > is my understanding from data protection laws all around the world. > > There's a reverse consideration here - the availability of the public > record of who attended meetings is an important part of the openness of the > standards process. > > Would *you* believe that a standard had been arrived at through a fair and > open process in an indiviual-participation process where you're told that > you can't see who the participants were? > > We did remove the email addresses from the list.... > > Harald > ********************************** Madrid 2003 Global IPv6 Summit Presentations and videos on line at: http://www.ipv6-es.com This electronic message contains information which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information, including attached files, is prohibited.