On Jul 5, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Alissa Cooper 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). +1 > > 2) If you have comments and suggestions about the policy itself, send them to this list. I would be very happy if the IETF adopted the privacy policy proposed in your draft. It seems to me the work of writing an acceptable policy is 90% done and the arguments that creating a privacy policy will detract from other work are pretty weak. It's a volunteer organization, people vote with their feet with what they want to work on. Just because Alissa spend time writing a policy document does not mean that time would be directed to other things if we did not want to do a privacy policy document. I don't think that having a privacy policy is going to bring a bunch of new contributors to the IETF, but I can imagine a case where the lack of a privacy policy caused some administrative group to do something really unfortunate which resulted in some good people leaving the IETF. A privacy policy is not something the IETF typically has a lot of people that are really experienced and qualified to draft. But we are very lucky here - we have multiple people that understand IETF culture and values, understand internet privacy policies and laws, and are willing to write a proposal. Unless this proposal is deeply flawed in some way I can't see, why wouldn't we just do it. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf