On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip
<pbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would suggest that the IESG also think about hosting all IETF lists in
> house in the future.
>
> The main reason for this is legal, a list that is maintained by the IETF
> is much more satisfactory in a patent dispute than one run by a third
> party. Last thing we want is to have patent trolls dragging a third
> party list maintainer into a dispute while they try to argue that the
> list somehow does not count.
The question I'd have in response to that point though, Phillip,
is how the cost vs. benefit of hosting all data in-house with
consideration to changing privacy and data retention laws weighs out.
Apologies for the run-on sentence.
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