Alessandro Vesely <vesely@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just noticed today that the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (their > revision of earlier Data Protection Directive) calls for a "structured, > commonly used, machine-readable and interoperable format" to transmit a > subject's consensus from an operator to another. Let me quote the beginning of > article 68: > > > To further strengthen the control over his or her own data, where the > processing of personal data is carried out by automated means, the data > subject should also be allowed to receive personal data concerning him or > her which he or she has provided to a controller in a structured, commonly > used, machine-readable and interoperable format, and to transmit it to > another controller. Data controllers should be encouraged to develop > interoperable formats that enable data portability. > http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679 > > > Who should devise and standardize such a format? Would that deserve a IETF WG? And ad hoc solution using RFC20 (plain old ASCII) should be sufficient to convey the two letters "NO". -Martin
