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Re: Important Information about IETF 76 Meeting Registration

2009-08-31 12:28:45
At 5:55 AM -0700 8/31/09, Alexa Morris wrote:
The data collected consist solely of an individuals full name and 
company/organization affiliation. We are not collecting email address 
information on the e-blue sheets.

Please note that you are now also collecting information that *is not* on the 
current blue sheets, namely "company/organization affiliation". I have noted 
that some people I know who have signed a blue sheet before me have used 
personal email addresses while (I assume) their badge lists their actual 
"company/organization affiliation". As a person with multiple 
company/organization affiliations, I sometimes change the email address I put 
on the blue sheets to be the one most appropriate to the topic of the WG.

It is a bad idea to have this experiment create combined blue sheets that have 
data that differs depending on the collection method. There are probably a 
dozen WGs in the IETF who have had this problem come back and bite them on 
their collective backsides during protocol development or, unfortunately, after 
their protocols have deployed.

Please strongly consider having the readers record exactly what the current 
blue sheets record, or change the blue sheets to record what the readers are 
recording for this meeting. The first of these two will most likely cause less 
revolt.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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