Re: respect privacy please !

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(Finally back after a prolonged sabbatical - last few months have been
too weird/hectic for me to do much of anything IETF-related)..

On Fri, 21 May 2004 15:55:50 BST, Tim Chown <tjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  said:
> On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:05:00AM +1000, grenville armitage wrote:
> > 
> > This could be solved by the IETF insisting that consent is required
> > before attendance. I, like John, do not believe it is acceptable for
> > the IETF meetings to be populated by anonymous attendees.
> 
> The issue is someone knowing where I am for a week, in advance.

It's amazing how many people, even on security-related mailing lists, are
surprised when this aspect of Out-of-Office replies is pointed out to them..

> Harald's suggestion of releasing the list post-event is an improvement...

I tend to concur here - I think a "The following people attended" list published
after the fact, with optional suppression of contact info and/or affiliation, is
sufficient to address the "openness" issue.  Whether suppression should be
opt-in or opt-out is debatable - I wouldn't have a problem with my e-mail
address and affiliation being listed in that context (even though I do have
issues with it elsewhere), but I can sympathize with those who feel otherwise.

> Maybe I'm using an alias... I could be Jim Fleming :)

Waving my patent-pending kook-o-meter over your email and Jim's produces
different characteristic patterns... so I doubt it. ;)

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