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Re: Future Handling of Blue Sheets

2012-04-24 19:20:04
John C Klensin wrote:

Martin Rex <mrex(_at_)sap(_dot_)com> wrote:

Identifying contributors or participants and publishing persons
photos or portaits are two very distinct things, and the former
does not require the latter at all.

In principle, I could keep the pictures to myself and put a list
of names of volunteers in the minutes.  Now suppose Joe Bloggs
is listed but announces on the mailing list after not doing
anything that he really didn't volunteer.  I've now got a choice
among accepting his assertion that he didn't volunteer, letting
him retroactively un-volunteer, or publishing the picture to
prove my case (and you claim the latter is illegal).  For a
number of reasons, generating peer pressure among them, I prefer
to just publish the picture.

I had assumed there is a difference between "volunteering in an IETF WG"
to do some work and "volunteering in Uncle Sam's recruiting buero".
When did this change?

I would also assume that "volunteering" should be scoped to what the
volunteer personally commits by explicit vocal or written communication,
rather than a "show of hand" volunteering to an unspecified amount
of work on the mind of a WG chair.  And any such personal commitment
may be vitally dependent on several constraints that are not explicitly
communicated along with it, and those may change.


I really do not see any need for a "photo proof" in that area, and much less
of a _publication_ of a photo.  Does this mean that IETF participants,
who do not attend IETF meetings in person, can no longer volunteer to
contribute to the IETF?

-Martin