--On Monday, July 05, 2010 5:05 PM +0100 Alissa Cooper
<acooper(_at_)cdt(_dot_)org> wrote:
A few months ago I drew up a strawman proposal for a
public-facing IETF privacy policy
(http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-cooper-privacy-policy-00.txt).
I've submitted an update based on feedback received:
http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-cooper-privacy-policy-01.txt
In discussing the policy with the IAOC and others, it seems
clear that the RFC model is probably not the best model for
maintaining and updating a document like this. It is more
likely to fall within the scope of the IAOC and/or the Trust.
In order for the IAOC to consider taking this on and devoting
resources to figuring out what its format should be, they need
to hear from the community that a public-facing privacy policy
is something that the community wants. So I have two requests
for those with any interest in this:
1) Respond on this list if you support the idea of the IETF
having a privacy policy (a simple "+1" will do).
2) If you have comments and suggestions about the policy
itself, send them to this list.
Alissa,
It is hard, and maybe impossible, to argue against the IETF
having an established privacy policy, so I agree with Melinda's
"about time".
However, while administering such a policy (to the degree to
which such a thing is needed) is a reasonable task for the IETF
community to assign to the IAOC (or Trust), those bodies are
quite explicitly not supposed to be represent or determine
community consensus: they are administrative, administrative
only, and part of a structure erected to handle administrative
tasks.
So, while the RFC process may not be appropriate for handling a
privacy policy (I'm actually not convinced it is not, but that
is another matter), unless we are really going top-down around
here, the responsibility for determining community consensus
about such a policy for the IETF community and setting it has to
stay with the IESG. I just don't see any way to avoid that.
john
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