What I don't understand is the amount of arm wrestling that happens on this
list.
You're certainly right, there's a culture of nitpicking. In this case I
think some of the issues are nitpicks, while some are significant. The
IETF is very peculiarly organized, which suggests that it would need a
somewhat peculiar privacy policy. Here are some questions that I think
are not nits:
Although the IETF per se has no legal existence, ISOC, the IETF Trust, and
perhaps other things I haven't noticed do. How should an IETF privacy
policy relate to the ISOC's existing privacy policy? Does the IETF Trust
need a privacy policy?
The IETF potentially collects PII in various ways, including publication
of Internet Drafts and RFCs, messages on mailing lists, registration info
for meetings, and activities in meetings. Meeting activites include paper
documents (meeting attendance sheets), electronic session presentation
material, oral session material which is transmitted over the voice feeds,
jabber chats, and random traffic sent over meeting networks. Are there
other forms of PII? Should a privacy policy treat them all the same, or
differently?
Some people have argued that it should be possible to participate in some
or all IETF processes while remaining partly or completely anonymous. Is
this a reasonable expectation?
R's,
John
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