On Aug 4, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Ted Lemon <Ted(_dot_)Lemon(_at_)nominum(_dot_)com>
wrote:
On Aug 3, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir(_at_)checkpoint(_dot_)com> wrote:
The participation in the IETF is already pseudonymous. I have a driver's
license, a passport, and a national ID card, all proving that my name is
indeed Yoav Nir. But I have never been asked to present any of them at the
IETF. I claim to work for Check Point, and my email address tends to suggest
it, but a lot of participants use gmail addresses.
So, you pay cash when you register?
No, I use a credit card in the name of my company's "head of purchasing", so
not in my name.
It would probably be difficult to keep your identity secret if there were a
discovery process during a patent trial. You would also have to lie on the
stand, and risk severe repercussions if your lie were revealed.
I would never lie at trial. But the name I use at trial doesn't go back to the
IETF.
So yes, this is a problem, but it's not clear to me that it's a serious
problem.
I don't think it's a serious problem anyway, but the IETF does not collect
enough data to "track you down" as a condition for participation. So tracking
you down becomes the lawyer's problem, not something that the IETF can give
away.
Yoav