Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-20 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 07/20/11 09:22, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote: Except that the other Content-disposition values express the sender's intent, whereas this one expresses the receiver's [likely] perception. In this case, we have to invent a cute backronym for it that expresses the sender's intent what about N

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-20 Thread Nathaniel Borenstein
Except that the other Content-disposition values express the sender's intent, whereas this one expresses the receiver's [likely] perception. It might as well be "Content-disposition: discard" -- no sender would ever generate it. In contrast one could make at least a semi-serious case that by d

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-19 Thread ned+ietf
Content-disposition: noise. Harald, I was about to say the same thing but you beat me to it. Unless we're prepared to talk about defining a general format for such notices (and I'm pretty sure we're not interested in doing that), this doesn't fit as a media type - I can easily envision using var

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-18 Thread Richard Kulawiec
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:45:44AM -, John Levine wrote: > It's clueless cargo cult lawyering. +1, and see also: http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/#legalistic which reads in part: "First, such boilerplate contains useless adhesions, meaning the explicit an

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-18 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:41:35 +0200, Harald Alvestrand > said: HA> Content-disposition: noise. Or: Content-disposition: delete -- Wes Hardaker SPARTA, Inc. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
ensin Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:39 AM To: Randall Gellens; Marc Petit-Huguenin Cc: IETF discussion list Subject: Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages If one starts down that path, there is a real possibility for a semantically-rich environment. For example, consider a noise type f

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-16 Thread Nathaniel Borenstein
39 AM >> To: Randall Gellens; Marc Petit-Huguenin >> Cc: IETF discussion list >> Subject: Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages >> >> If one starts down that path, there is a real possibility for a >> semantically-rich environment. For example, consider a n

RE: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-15 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
> -Original Message- > From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of John > C Klensin > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:39 AM > To: Randall Gellens; Marc Petit-Huguenin > Cc: IETF discussion list > Subject: Re: Confidentiality notices on e

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-15 Thread John Levine
>See http://www.out-law.com/page-5536 It says "There is no legal authority on the effectiveness of these notices in email messages;" and "There is no legal authority on the value of these notices in email communications. When the notice is added automatically to every external communication, there

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-15 Thread Donald Eastlake
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:14 PM, wrote: >> > Obviously we need to take a typical step back first and determine the >> > scope of the problem.  We need to commission a "requirements for noise" >> > ID first. > >> Can we schedule a BOF? Perhaps a symbolic burning of notices? > > Wouldn't that be a

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-15 Thread ned+ietf
> > Obviously we need to take a typical step back first and determine the > > scope of the problem. We need to commission a "requirements for noise" > > ID first. > Can we schedule a BOF? Perhaps a symbolic burning of notices? Wouldn't that be a BON rather than BOF?

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-15 Thread David Morris
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Wes Hardaker wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:39:17 -0400, John C Klensin > > said: > > >> Ooh, I like this proposal. We can also have noise-types for > >> exhortations to not print the email. > > JCK> If one starts down that path, there is a real possibility f

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-15 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:39:17 -0400, John C Klensin > said: >> Ooh, I like this proposal. We can also have noise-types for >> exhortations to not print the email. JCK> If one starts down that path, there is a real possibility for a JCK> semantically-rich environment. For example, con

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-15 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On 14/Jul/11 18:37, Will McAfee wrote: > On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> One can sign the "Sensitivity" header field defined by RFC 2156. It >> can have the values "Personal" / "Private" / "Company-Confidential". >> >> However, I received some messages bearing a confide

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-15 Thread Olaf Kolkman
On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: > It's excellent that the issue was covered in the RFC. > > My question is how the contents of that RFC can be binding on random IETF > participants? At the risk of answering a rhetorical question: It's being referred to in the NOTE WELL. All

RE: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread Worley, Dale R (Dale)
> From: John C Klensin [john-i...@jck.com] > > Randall Gellens wrote: > > > At 6:19 PM -0400 7/13/11, John C Klensin wrote: > > > >>Content-type: text/noise; > >>noise-type="bogus-legal-disclaimer", charset=... > > > > Ooh, I like this proposal. We can also have noise-types for > > exho

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread Barry Leiba
>>>    Content-type: text/noise; >>>    noise-type="bogus-legal-disclaimer", charset=... >> >> Ooh, I like this proposal.  We can also have noise-types for >> exhortations to not print the email. > > If one starts down that path, there is a real possibility for a > semantically-rich environment.  F

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:00 -0700 Randall Gellens wrote: > At 6:19 PM -0400 7/13/11, John C Klensin wrote: > >>Content-type: text/noise; >>noise-type="bogus-legal-disclaimer", charset=... > > Ooh, I like this proposal. We can also have noise-types for > exhortations to not pri

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread Randall Gellens
At 6:19 PM -0400 7/13/11, John C Klensin wrote: Content-type: text/noise; noise-type="bogus-legal-disclaimer", charset=... Ooh, I like this proposal. We can also have noise-types for exhortations to not print the email. -- Randall Gellens Opinions are personal;facts are suspect;

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/14/2011 08:28 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On 14/Jul/11 03:48, John Levine wrote: >>> Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be >>> standardized with their own MIME type to make automatic processing >>> easier so receivers

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread Will McAfee
They don't have legal value, period. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On 14/Jul/11 03:48, John Levine wrote: >>> Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be >>> standardized with their own MIME type to make automatic processing >>>

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On 14/Jul/11 03:48, John Levine wrote: >>Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be >>standardized with their own MIME type to make automatic processing >>easier so receivers of this kind of notice (mailing-list or other) >>can respect the wishes of the sender. > > That respect

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Jul 14, 2011, at 6:24 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote: > > > On 7/12/2011 2:36 PM, Jorge Contreras wrote: >> You may want to refer to Section 5.2 of RFC 5378, which addresses this issue: >> >> "Each Contributor agrees that any statement in a Contribution, whether >> generated >> automatically or ot

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread Will McAfee
While these notices have very little to no legal weight whatsoever, I firmly believe that allowing their presence on our mailing list invites frivolous lawsuits whose purpose is to cost the IETF money in the case that an individual does not like what we are doing. One does not need to look particu

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread Michael Richardson
> "Dave" == Dave CROCKER writes: >> You may want to refer to Section 5.2 of RFC 5378, which addresses >> this issue: >> >> "Each Contributor agrees that any statement in a Contribution, >> whether generated automatically or otherwise, that states or >> implies that th

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 7/12/2011 2:36 PM, Jorge Contreras wrote: You may want to refer to Section 5.2 of RFC 5378, which addresses this issue: "Each Contributor agrees that any statement in a Contribution, whether generated automatically or otherwise, that states or implies that the Contribution is confidential o

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread Michael Richardson
> "Marc" == Marc Petit-Huguenin writes: Marc> No, I was serious. I think that the best response to this Marc> kind of stuff is to do what they ask to the letter. If we can Marc> convince the senders that annotating their notice with an Marc> header will permit us to obey the

RE: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread Michel Py
> John Levine wrote: > It's clueless cargo cult lawyering. I blogged on it in January: > http://jl.ly/Internet/confid.html That tells me a lot about the competence of some lawyers. A law firm asked me some time ago to implement a system on their MS Exchange server to automatically add such disclai

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread John Levine
>Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be >standardized with their own MIME type to make automatic processing >easier so receivers of this kind of notice (mailing-list or other) >can respect the wishes of the sender. That respect would of course be demonstrated by rejecting o

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread John Levine
>Ever since, I've wondered if these notices were set up by someone >who is a lawyer and does understand the situation, or if they were >set up by someone who saw others do it, or heard that this sort of >thing was needed. It's clueless cargo cult lawyering. I blogged on it in January: http://j

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread Martin Rex
Randall Gellens wrote: > > I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV or the net, so I likely > don't understand the situation. As a point of possibly interesting > information, once upon a time, at a training session held by a lawyer > regarding how to protect confidential information, we we

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/2011 03:19 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:38 -0700 Marc Petit-Huguenin > wrote: > >> ... >> Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be >> standardized with their own MIME type to make a

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed Jul 13 23:19:00 2011, John C Klensin wrote: --On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:38 -0700 Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: >... > Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be > standardized with their own MIME type to make automatic > processing easier so receivers of this kind

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:38 -0700 Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: >... > Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be > standardized with their own MIME type to make automatic > processing easier so receivers of this kind of notice > (mailing-list or other) can respect the

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/2011 09:49 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On 13/Jul/11 18:38, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: >> On 07/13/2011 06:50 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: >>> >>> Barry, I think that we should put a filter on the ietf.org that bounces >>> all messages with

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On 13/Jul/11 18:38, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: > On 07/13/2011 06:50 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: >> >> Barry, I think that we should put a filter on the ietf.org that bounces >> all messages with confidentiality notices. > > Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be standar

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/2011 06:50 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > > Barry, I think that we should put a filter on the ietf.org that bounces > all messages with confidentiality notices. Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be standardized wit

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:39:49PM -0400, Barry Leiba wrote: > > "Each Contributor agrees that any statement in a Contribution, whether > > generated automatically or otherwise, that states or implies that the > > Contribution is confidential or subject to any privilege, can be disregarded > > for

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread Michael Richardson
Barry, I think that we should put a filter on the ietf.org that bounces all messages with confidentiality notices. I also think that we should enforce 77 columns max for text/plain when there is no "format=flowed" option in the Content-Type. -- ] He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of li

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-12 Thread Huub van Helvoort
Hello Barry, You wrote: Hi, Jorge. You may want to refer to Section 5.2 of RFC 5378, which addresses this issue: "Each Contributor agrees that any statement in a Contribution, whether generated automatically or otherwise, that states or implies that the Contribution is confidential or subjec

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-12 Thread Hector Santos
Randall Gellens wrote: Barry, I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV or the net, so I likely don't understand the situation. As a point of possibly interesting information, once upon a time, at a training session held by a lawyer regarding how to protect confidential information, we we

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-12 Thread J.D. Falk
On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Randall Gellens wrote: > Ever since, I've wondered if these notices were set up by someone who is a > lawyer and does understand the situation, or if they were set up by someone > who saw others do it, or heard that this sort of thing was needed. The latter seems li

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-12 Thread Randall Gellens
Barry, I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV or the net, so I likely don't understand the situation. As a point of possibly interesting information, once upon a time, at a training session held by a lawyer regarding how to protect confidential information, we were admonished not to sla

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-12 Thread Barry Leiba
Hi, Jorge. > You may want to refer to Section 5.2 of RFC 5378, which addresses this > issue: > > "Each Contributor agrees that any statement in a Contribution, whether > generated automatically or otherwise, that states or implies that the > Contribution is confidential or subject to any privilege

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-12 Thread Jorge Contreras
Barry, You may want to refer to Section 5.2 of RFC 5378, which addresses this issue: "Each Contributor agrees that any statement in a Contribution, whether generated automatically or otherwise, that states or implies that the Contribution is confidential or subject to any privilege, can be disreg

Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-12 Thread Barry Leiba
I am increasingly seeing IETF participants posting messages to IETF mailing lists, sending messages to chairs and ADs, and so on, where their messages include confidentiality/security/legal notices at the bottom. You know the ones; here are excerpts from two recent examples: --