Re: respect privacy please !

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On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:24:14AM +1000, grenville armitage wrote:
> 
> If your threat model postulates someone knowing enough about you to check
> for your IETF registration, then simply knowing when IETF meetings occur gives
> them a pretty good start. Testing your email account for 'out of office'
> replies gives them on-the-week confirmation. Just watching what you've
> been saying on ietf mailing lists leading up to the next scheduled IETF
> meeting can confirm their suspicions.

Not everyone attends every IETF.   Not everyone uses email autoreplies.
 
> I.e. hiding IETF registrations is hardly likely to impact on the threat offered
> to your personal security by anyone knowledgable enough about your behavior
> to be checking the IETF's online registrations list in the first place.

But there's no reason the list should be published in advance.
 
> But in any case, post-meeting release of the registration list would go
> along way to satisfying the goal of knowing "who was there".

The only issue seems to be people who want to check their *own* registration
status, and who didn't keep a record of their email confirmation.   There
are other ways to solve that.

Tim

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