I am in favour of openness of information of this sort. Is this the first of its kind? Because if so I suggest a few amendments.
If it is responsive (as in this case) then every request will come to the list and I think a large number of attached documents will simply clutter mailboxes. (I have asked several FOIs and I have much appreciated WhatDoTheyKnow as a way of managing a single instance of the correspondence. I don't think we should have an OKF-WDTK as I expect the number of questions to be small. But can we have a wiki or page where the results are displayed. And, presumably, if the questions is generic (over time) it makes sense to pre-load that site with the data. The OKF has nothing to hide. The disclosure of information that the public has a right to is often somewhat uncomfortable to organizations but that is how it should be. For example the (enormous) salaries / remunerations for officers of the American Chemical Society are required to be public info by the IRS and every year one of the members digs this out of the IRS and publishes it in a security-by-obscurity location. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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