On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/01/2014 14:19, Stephen Farrell wrote: > >> It means >> that, if asked, there needs to be a good answer to the question "is >> pervasive monitoring relevant to this work and if so how has it been >> addressed?" > > I think this is an excellent question for a reviewer to ask, > regardless of whether the present draft is published as a BCP, > an Informational document, or never. > > Responsible engineering means considering a great number of > eventualities when finalising a design, and this is just one > more of those eventualities. Some of us who do reviews already consider it, and are willing to argue to get drafts fixed if they have privacy problems. This is just making it a general IETF practice.