[OpenID] general Digest, Vol 28, Issue 116

[John Bradley]

I agree with Eran.

As a member of several Standards organizations all of my contributions  
and correspondence relating to IPR governed work are a matter of  
public record.

I have come to accept that contributing in these forums requires me to  
give up my anonymity to an extent.  While it is reasonable for OASIS  
to publish my email it would not be reasonable for them to publish my  
home address.   Unless I am missing something I don't think the OIDF  
is considering that sort of disclosure.

However I do also believe that members not participating in IPR  
related work have a right to there privacy,  and protection of there  
personal information.

I am also running for the board,  If you are going to vote against  
Eran on this you issue can vote against me as well.

Yes I am a terrible campaigner:)

Regards
John Bradley
=jbradley


On 14-Dec-08, at 3:05 PM, general-request at openid.net wrote:

> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:07:37 -0700
> From: Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran at hueniverse.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Shade's questions - Privacy for Foundation
> 	members
> To: SitG Admin <sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com>
> Cc: "general at openid.net" <general at openid.net>
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> The foundation should not be handing out personal information for  
> any other purposes than to obey its bylaws (for example, sending  
> notifications as legally required will mean giving someone with an  
> administrative capacity access to the mailing lists). Members should  
> have an opt-in way to allow their name and city/country to be  
> listed, with optionally their employer. But this should not imply I  
> care much about privacy either way (since pretending such a thing  
> exists online is a fantasy).
>
> This is not the same for those wishing to contribute to an actual  
> specification. There should be no anonymity or privacy in that  
> process. Standards work requires IPR policies, which in turn require  
> you sign some sort of a license. If you are employed (or otherwise  
> do not control your IP), you must disclose it and that information  
> must be made public to anyone asking for it. It is reasonable to  
> hide your personal home address when publishing such documents  
> online, but since these are legal documents, must be provided  
> unchanged to those who make an official request for them.
>
> Personally, I will not allow you to contribute anonymously to any  
> specification I am the editor of. This does not meet my requirement  
> for worthwhile and legally sound participation.
>
> I cannot imagine any reason for you to hide behind an alias. So to  
> answer your original question about anonymity in the foundation,  
> yes, I would tell such people their contribution isn't welcome.
>
> EHL

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