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Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 11:13:27

On Jul 14, 2011, at 6:24 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote:



On 7/12/2011 2:36 PM, Jorge Contreras wrote:
You may want to refer to Section 5.2 of RFC 5378, which addresses this issue:

"Each Contributor agrees that any statement in a Contribution, whether 
generated
automatically or otherwise, that states or implies that the Contribution is
confidential or subject to any privilege, can be disregarded for all 
purposes,
and will be of no force or effect."


Jorge,

It's excellent that the issue was covered in the RFC.

My question is how the contents of that RFC can be binding on random IETF 
participants?

Everyone on this list has be asked to and has accepted the note well.

I doubt many folk even know about the item, even if they know about the RFC 
and I don't see how they have agreed to those terms.

http://www.ietf.org/about/note-well.html

Has the force of this been tested?  That is, when there is a conflict between 
the conditions imposed by one of these email attachments and the terms in RFC 
5378, is there equivalent legal precedent for the RFC to win?

Thanks.

d/

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 Dave Crocker
 Brandenburg InternetWorking
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