On Jul 5, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Alissa Cooper wrote: > A few months ago I drew up a strawman proposal for a public-facing IETF > privacy policy (http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-cooper-privacy-policy-00.txt). > I've submitted an update based on feedback received: > http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-cooper-privacy-policy-01.txt > > In discussing the policy with the IAOC and others, it seems clear that the > RFC model is probably not the best model for maintaining and updating a > document like this. It is more likely to fall within the scope of the IAOC > and/or the Trust. In order for the IAOC to consider taking this on and > devoting resources to figuring out what its format should be, they need to > hear from the community that a public-facing privacy policy is something that > the community wants. So I have two requests for those with any interest in > this: > > 1) Respond on this list if you support the idea of the IETF having a privacy > policy (a simple "+1" will do).
+1 > > 2) If you have comments and suggestions about the policy itself, send them to > this list. I would be very happy if the IETF adopted the privacy policy proposed in your draft. It seems to me the work of writing an acceptable policy is 90% done and the arguments that creating a privacy policy will detract from other work are pretty weak. It's a volunteer organization, people vote with their feet with what they want to work on. Just because Alissa spend time writing a policy document does not mean that time would be directed to other things if we did not want to do a privacy policy document. I don't think that having a privacy policy is going to bring a bunch of new contributors to the IETF, but I can imagine a case where the lack of a privacy policy caused some administrative group to do something really unfortunate which resulted in some good people leaving the IETF. A privacy policy is not something the IETF typically has a lot of people that are really experienced and qualified to draft. But we are very lucky here - we have multiple people that understand IETF culture and values, understand internet privacy policies and laws, and are willing to write a proposal. Unless this proposal is deeply flawed in some way I can't see, why wouldn't we just do it. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
