Re: Proposed Photography Policy - Transparency and Leadership

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So explain to me why we will allow people to prohibit posting of still photos of themselves, but we will not prohibit video of them?

It's not like they can stop others outside our purview from taking stills from the video and re-posting them.

Frankly, given modern technology, the difference between video and still pictures is minuscule. I was trying to stay out of that aspect of this policy. But you have chosen to push it.

Yours,
Joel

On 3/2/18 6:20 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:


On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Joel M. Halpern <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    The fundamental driver here is organizational transparency.  Our
    leaders are accountable to the community.


Yes. That's why we have videography, minutes, etc. We are talking very specifically about published *still* photography.

-Ekr


    I am sorry, the image of declaring that the IEtF chair can require
    that photographers not talk pictures of the IETF chair when
    presenting to the community seems explicitly wrong to me.
    Equally, the image of a Working Group chair saying that he or she
    can not be photographed while running a working group session seems
    completely counter to the transparency and accountability of our
    organization.

    We do place behavioral expectations and constraints on our
    leadership in many ways.

    Yours,
    Joel

    On 3/2/18 6:07 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:



        On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Joel M. Halpern
        <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
        <mailto:jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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







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