From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 01:21:18 CST
Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> writes:
> I am going from the draft on landfield.com which says it is dated
> recently. It says simply that an admin "MAY" use interpretations
> interpretable only by himself. This should be "recommended" and the use
> of directly identifiable information deprecated.
No. This is a technical standard, not a political statement. If you want
to issue political statements, this is not the place.
Some people, such as me, want to use directly identifiable information
under at least some circumstances. That decision is none of yours or
anyone else's business within the scope of standardization, and there
should be a mechanism in the standard to do so if one wants to. The
standard does not need to recommend one or the other, and I see no reason
for it to do so; we should provide mechanisms to sites and let them
choose.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>