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Re: FTP Service Discontinuance Under Consideration; Input Requested

2015-04-04 08:24:28
I hope we are steadily moving moving towards a network that comes with
build-in privacy. I am not saying that the IETF needs to be the front
runner in that with their documents, although at some point in time
we should do what we preach.

I don't disagree with "built in" privacy.

I disagree with "forced" privacy and I don't think that any "rough
consensus" document should force that upon any of us (especially one
with zero requirements language).

The key question here is simple:

      - does the RFC Editor have a reason to warrant
      mandatory privacy?

      - should mandatory privacy apply to the whole site,
      or should there be some content it doesn't care is tracked?

IMO, access to I-Ds and RFCs ought to be available even with tracking.

I completely agree with all of this. The IETF has led the way in providing
fully open access to both its standards and standards-in-the-making, and
indeed, there are still plenty of other standards that are difficult
to access.

To me this is one of the IETF's core principles, and I don't think the
"privacy everywhere" priincple comes even close to trumping it.

                                Ned


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