Thanks for changing the subject line, Brian. I’m just here to add that this topic is specifically dealt with in the Note Well/RFC 5378/BCP 78, Section 5.2 [1], No information or document that is subject to any requirement of confidentiality or any restriction on its dissemination may be submitted as a Contribution or otherwise considered in any part of the IETF Standards Process, and there must be no assumption of any confidentiality obligation with respect to any Contribution. Each Contributor agrees that any statement in a Contribution, whether generated automatically or otherwise, that states or implies that the Contribution is confidential or subject to any privilege, can be disregarded for all purposes, and will be of no force or effect. The authors did not add <drops mic> but they might as well have. —John [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5378.html#section-5.2 > On Jul 28, 2023, at 6:49 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 29-Jul-23 05:35, John Levine wrote: >> It appears that Lloyd W <lloyd.wood@xxxxxxxxx> said: >>> hi Dan, >>> >>> You do realise you're posting to a public IETF mailing list, >>> archived publicly on the web for anyone to read? And that, as a submission to the IETF, that access to your mail is >>> authorised by the IETF? >> >> Here in the US, disclaimers like the one below just mean "we don't >> have the foggiest understanding of privacy or copyright law" since >> they are completely meaningless. I gather that in the UK they are not >> quite as vacuous so prudence dicates that we delete his mail unread. > > Not really. The mumbo-jumbo includes "If you are not an addressee...". > Everybody on this list is an addressee. IANAL, but I think you could > argue that when a destination is known to be publicly archived, > everybody with Internet access is an addressee. > > Brian > > >> >> R's, >> John >> >>> >>>> On 28 Jul 2023, at 07:09, Dan Sexton <Dan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> The information contained in this email is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. It is intended only >>> for the stated addressee(s) and access to it by any other person is unauthorised. If you are not an addressee, you >>> must not disclose, copy, circulate or in any other way use or rely on the information contained in this email. Such >>> unauthorised use may be unlawful. If you have received this email in error, please inform us immediately and delete >>> it and all copies from your system. Internet Watch Foundation does not accept responsibility for changes made to >>> this message after it was sent >>> >> >> >
