RE: Provreg WG Last Call announcement

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Greenwell [mailto:patrick@stealthgeeks.net]
> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 12:48 PM
> To: ietf-provreg@cafax.se
> Subject: Re: Provreg WG Last Call announcement
> 
> 
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Edward Lewis wrote:
> 
> > So, in the effort to promote the requirements draft to an 
> RFC, let the last
> > call begin.
> 
> First, let me say thanks to all of you who have been labouring on this
> draft. It's elegant in it's simplicity.
> 
> I do have a question/comment: would the concept of state be appropriate
> with social information as it is with certain other objects, say in the
> case where privacy of information is desired and a higher-layered protocol
> would take that state information(privacy lock or somesuch) into account?

Some time ago we discussed data collection (particularly WRT social
information) requirements, the end result of which has been captured in
section 8.4 of the draft.  The protocol-in-progress will include provisions
to identify how social data may be used, though the WG hasn't yet produced a
proposal to describe how this feature might be implemented.

<Scott/>