I thought that people might like to see where the Blue Sheets are currently stored by the IETF Trust once the Secretariat is done with them : http://www.americafree.tv/IETF_Trust/index.html I feel fairly certain that addresses are not being scanned there. Regards Marshall On Apr 4, 2008, at 5:19 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Friday, 04 April, 2008 11:56 -0400 Derek Atkins > <derek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Harald Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Diving straight into armchairing myself, I'll just note that >>> under EU data privacy laws, it's illegal to collect personal >>> info for which you have no legitimate purpose - so if we >>> never use those emails for anything, we shouldn't collect >>> them. >> >> I've used them. One time when I chaired a BOF I collected the >> email addresses to personally ask if they wanted to be involved >> in the mailing list. (It was done this way because the list >> was not set up prior to the meeting). So, having email >> addresses was very important to inform everyone in the room of >> the list address. > > Yes. And, as a sometime BOF or WG chair, I've often asked the > secretariat for copies of the blue sheets (and gotten them) to > check names of spellings against the minutes, to write people > asking for clarification about what they said, and to get my own > sense of the profile and pattern of those participating in the > meetings compared to those who were participating on the list. > Some of those uses require email addresses, some don't. But the > activity is, IMO, legitimate and useful enough that I'm > reluctant to give up the email addresses unless someone > demonstrates that there is a real problem that needs solving. > > I won't repeat what others have said about the presence or > absence of the problem, but I'm not convinced either. > > john > > _______________________________________________ > IETF mailing list > IETF@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf