On May 11, 2017, at 8:14 AM, Andrew Sullivan
<ajs(_at_)anvilwalrusden(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 07:47:20PM +0000, Stephan Wenger wrote:
I’m in favor of validating the address, for example by sending some form of
credential to it; without the credential, only listening/reading access is
granted. Doesn’t have to be bullet-proof, but using
example(_at_)example(_dot_)com shouldn’t work. This is obviously in order
to obtain one semi-traceable record of the participant.
We don't do that for in-person participants, because we no longer even
collect the email address on the blue sheets. (We do it for meeting
registration, of course, but we don't have a way to pair that with
participation in any given part of the meeting, so the IPR issue is
harder to argue by analogy here.)
Collecting an email address as part of the registration process does not mean
that the email address needs to appear in the proceedings.
Russ