Re: respect privacy please !

Jordi,

This has been discussed several times before.  While I share 
your discomfort, IETF is not some "conference" you might be 
attending.  It is very difficult to claim that one has an open 
standards process when some participants are permitted attend 
meetings and, potentially, influence decisions while being 
hidden or anonymous. We do not discourage people from lurking 
quietly on mailing lists. But I think that, as soon as anyone 
more actively participates -- whether by posting to mailing 
lists or attending meetings (especially since the latter is a 
qualification for Nomcom membership that must be publicly 
verifiable) -- then I think desires for privacy have to yield to 
the importance of trust in the IETF community and its processes. 
As with IPR disclosures, if one can't accept the rules, the best 
option is to decide to not play.
Out of curiosity, would you feed better about this if the 
boilerplate you need to page through to register said, 
explicitly, "if you don't want your name to be made public as a 
registrant and participant, please don't register or attend" or 
"by registering, you consent..."?  I don't have any control over 
the text or decisions but assume that, if lots of people wanted 
such language to eliminate any misunderstandings about whether 
you had consented, the IESG and Secretariat would probably agree 
to add it.
At least the Secretariat no longer feels a need to publish email 
addresses with the list of registrants :-(
    best,
     john

p.s. Note that the above is purely a process and moral position. 
There is, I'm sure, a legal one that parallels it, but I'd 
rather not go there --and set off a wave of amateur lawyering-- 
if we can help it.


--On Friday, 21 May, 2004 13:24 +0200 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ 
<jordi(_dot_)palet(_at_)consulintel(_dot_)es> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've already raised this some time ago, same as other people
> did, but I still see my name being published, w/o my consent,
> in the list of attendees.
>
> This is not acceptable, we should have the option to choose if
> we want to have our name published or not when we do the
> registration.
>
> I will also like to get some response about the time frame to
> get the IETF sites IPv6-enabled. If there is any problem for
> doing that, I already volunteered to host a mirror.
>
> Regards,
> Jordi




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