To:
Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>
Cc:
Richard Shockey <rich.shockey@neustar.biz>, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>, Edward Lewis <edlewis@arin.net>, "'ietf-provreg@cafax.se'" <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>, <iesg@ietf.org>
From:
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date:
Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:15:22 -0800
Sender:
owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: privacy
>> nope. to repeat yet again. we are not discussing privacy *policy*. >> we are discussing a mechanism by which a wide set of policies may >> be implemented. operating system theory 101. > > maybe we had different instructors... to discuss capabilities of > implementing a policy we must understand the range of policies > and that is clearly out of scope for this group. which is one of the reason per-field granularity is desired. it maximizes flexibility, i.e., you're not just stuck with "don't publish tech poc." it handles the union of requests heard from various registrars, locales, and registries. > I took shop class too, where we learned about square pegs, round > holes and hammers, none of which is of any benefit here. then why mention them? can we reduce the slanging match and stick to engineering and computer science? randy