--On Monday, July 05, 2010 5:05 PM +0100 Alissa Cooper <acooper@xxxxxxx> wrote: > A few months ago I drew up a strawman proposal for a > public-facing IETF privacy policy > (http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-cooper-privacy-policy-00.txt). > I've submitted an update based on feedback received: > http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-cooper-privacy-policy-01.txt > > In discussing the policy with the IAOC and others, it seems > clear that the RFC model is probably not the best model for > maintaining and updating a document like this. It is more > likely to fall within the scope of the IAOC and/or the Trust. > In order for the IAOC to consider taking this on and devoting > resources to figuring out what its format should be, they need > to hear from the community that a public-facing privacy policy > is something that the community wants. So I have two requests > for those with any interest in this: > > 1) Respond on this list if you support the idea of the IETF > having a privacy policy (a simple "+1" will do). > > 2) If you have comments and suggestions about the policy > itself, send them to this list. Alissa, It is hard, and maybe impossible, to argue against the IETF having an established privacy policy, so I agree with Melinda's "about time". However, while administering such a policy (to the degree to which such a thing is needed) is a reasonable task for the IETF community to assign to the IAOC (or Trust), those bodies are quite explicitly not supposed to be represent or determine community consensus: they are administrative, administrative only, and part of a structure erected to handle administrative tasks. So, while the RFC process may not be appropriate for handling a privacy policy (I'm actually not convinced it is not, but that is another matter), unless we are really going top-down around here, the responsibility for determining community consensus about such a policy for the IETF community and setting it has to stay with the IESG. I just don't see any way to avoid that. john _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf