On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Joel M. Halpern <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
One of the aspects that concerns me about the policy is that it seems to allow our leadership to require that their images be removed from pictures of them doing their job.
I don't understand the motivation for this proposal, and it has clear downsides in terms of discouraging participation by people who wish not to be photographed.
Why should being a leader require you to have your picture publicly posted? Your appearance isn't any necessary part of the leadership function.
In case it's not clear, the purpose of the text about panels is, like the text about large groups, a concession to practicality, not derived from the notion that leaders inherently have some diminished right to privacy.
-Ekr
Yes, there is text about panels. But that seems insufficient. I would suggest we add:
IETF Leadership (such as IAB members, IESG members, and Working Group
Chairs) should understand that when they are performing their formal
duties they may be photographed, and those photographs may be
displayed in public.
That would be in addition to the existing text about panels. Thus, it would cover WG chairs and cases where for example the IAB Chair or IETF chair are presenting even without a panel of others.
I will leave it to others as to whether the example lsit of leadership needs to be more comprehensive. I hope that we do not need to be more specific about what we mean by performing their formal duties.
Yours,
Joel
