I thought that people might like to see where the Blue Sheets are  
currently stored by the IETF Trust once the
Secretariat is done with them :

http://www.americafree.tv/IETF_Trust/index.html

I feel fairly certain that addresses are not being scanned there.

Regards
Marshall

On Apr 4, 2008, at 5:19 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
>
>
> --On Friday, 04 April, 2008 11:56 -0400 Derek Atkins
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Harald Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> Diving straight into armchairing myself, I'll just note that
>>> under EU data privacy laws, it's illegal to collect personal
>>> info for which you have no legitimate purpose - so if we
>>> never use those emails for anything, we shouldn't collect
>>> them.
>>
>> I've used them.  One time when I chaired a BOF I collected the
>> email addresses to personally ask if they wanted to be involved
>> in the mailing list.  (It was done this way because the list
>> was not set up prior to the meeting).  So, having email
>> addresses was very important to inform everyone in the room of
>> the list address.
>
> Yes.  And, as a sometime BOF or WG chair, I've often asked the
> secretariat for copies of the blue sheets (and gotten them) to
> check names of spellings against the minutes, to write people
> asking for clarification about what they said, and to get my own
> sense of the profile and pattern of those participating in the
> meetings compared to those who were participating on the list.
> Some of those uses require email addresses, some don't.  But the
> activity is, IMO, legitimate and useful enough that I'm
> reluctant to give up the email addresses unless someone
> demonstrates that there is a real problem that needs solving.
>
> I won't repeat what others have said about the presence or
> absence of the problem, but I'm not convinced either.
>
>     john
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