Ted Lemon wrote: > So why are we still arguing about this? For whatever it's worth, my personal view is that the proposed statement is useful in an administrative context, in determining how we should construct IETF services / tools. Whether it is also part of a broader political statement is not particularly relevant. It makes sense to me that we should employ the technology that we produce, as we recommend it to be employed by the larger Internet community, regardless of the specific privacy needs of the IETF. So, I don't think there is anything to argue about here. Unless somebody knows of material issues in the technology, such as ways that the recommendation will break things, it seems safe for the IESG to rely on prior consensus (i.e. about privacy etc) to make this statement. Cheers, -Benson