Re: privacy

[Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:37:02PM -0800, Allison Mankin wrote:
> Rick,
> 
> We are just trying ensure that a basic privacy can be implemented
> on the fields.  

I get the impression, from reading the thread, that it is not clear
what "a basic privacy" is.  But any time I try to answer that
question, I always end up thinking about policy matters and not
technical ones.  That seems to me to be a reason to believe that this
problem should not be addressed in the base specification.

> There are a number of other efforts on privacy in IETF working groups
> and at large - this is not the only place nor the only way that a group
> has been asked to make mandatory-to-implement privacy.  Geopriv is an

And so what if the others come up with a mandatory-to-implement
privacy that is inconsistent with the mandatory-to-implement privacy
that ends up in the EPP specification?  It seems to me it might be a
mistake to implement privacy piecemeal.

(As is the tradition in the IETF, I speak only for myself and not my
employer.  My employer might well not agree with my view.)

A

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