On Aug 4, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Ted Lemon <ted.le...@nominum.com> wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Yoav Nir <y...@checkpoint.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
