In this era where "everyone is a publisher and a photographer," I can well imagine situations where a closeup of a person (badge visible) gets "published" in a way that such a person may find uncomfortable. Since I am male and white, I tend not to worry too much this, nor do I worry about walking alone at night, but I do understand the issue. Ole On Sat, 3 Mar 2018, Ross Finlayson wrote: > > > On Mar 3, 2018, at 4:33 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Mixing human labelling and a asking for people to respect the > > labels is doomed to protocol failure. > > Agreed. And as a practical matter, I think we’d find that someone > who wore a "do not photograph” label would find themselves > inadvertently getting *more* scrutiny at an IETF meeting, not less. > I.e., if you saw someone wearing such a label (unless they were very > common), your natural reaction (as much as you might try to do > otherwise) would be to look more closely at their name tag to note > who they are (and then internally speculate on why they might not > want to be photographed). > > I don’t deny that there are people out there who would find it > uncomfortable to be photographed (or even looked at) in a public > forum such as an IETF meeting. Most such people would probably end > up preferring to attend the meeting remotely. > > Ross. > >
