Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>
> On 7/25/10 6:21 AM, Fred Baker wrote:
> >
> > A person's identity and their behavior are two different things. I
> > would presume that every IETF working group or BOF list has at least
> > one person on it who is lurking in the discussion for the purpose of
> > filing a frivolous lawsuit later. Not sure how we can prevent that.
>
> lurking does not in our definition amount to a contribution.
"Lurking", i.e. to watch (monitor) what is going on in IETF working groups
is designed to be anonymous. RFC, I-Ds and mailing list archives do
not require any authentication or subscription. If they did, things
would no longer be public, but instead membership-only (even if
membership does not require a fee and is open to the public).
Btw. if a person, by his/her own free will decides to publish something
through IETF channels (e.g. on an IETF mailing list, during a WG session
at an IETF meeting or by submitting an I-D), then this is a whole
different kind of PII information than payment data collected
by the IETF (secretariat or whoever handles the payments when registering
for an IETF meeting).
-Martin
PS: you do not need to create an publish a privacy policy before you
can purchase and read Bill Clintons autobiography, neither as
a private person, nor as a (representative of) coporate entity.
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