Randy, we have had at least one "researcher" sniffing passwords in plenary WiFi traffic and posting them, to embarrass people into using more secure technology. I believe he was an Ops AD at the time :-) Agreed that personal net hygiene is the solution there. On Jul 9, 2010, at 5:04 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > [ fwiw, i am not bothered if some folk well-versed in such things > develop and put forth a policy about how the ietf treats data > about members, attendees, network, ... ] > >> And "yes" we have researchers looking into the traffic, people storing >> all sorts of data, etc. > > we do? about our traffic on the ietf meeting network? stuff other than > the _ephemeral_ data the noc ops use to manage the network? > > as far as i know > > o data collection has been done very rarely. and when it has been, it > has been widely announced. > > o there is no plan known by the net ops to do so in maastricht or > beijing at either of those meetings. > > o aside from issues in the wireless deployment, the data about net use > at ietf meeings seems pretty boring to me from a research view > > o but i am sure there are wifi spies snooping and playing. and i > suspect that they will not be very respectful of any policy put in > place. > > given the latter, i focus more on prudent personal net hygene and less > on prose. > > randy > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf http://www.ipinc.net/IPv4.GIF _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
