On Thu, 07 Jul 2016, Russ Allbery wrote: > Don Armstrong <[email protected]> writes: > > > I have no problem acknowledging that we haven't been able to implement > > the existing GR, but I don't see the utility of voting to remove the > > possibility of ever implementing it. > > I would prefer removing the possibility of ever implementing it > without another vote. We can always vote again if someone comes up > with a workable scheme.
That puts a whole lot of stop energy in front of anyone who actually is interested in trying to declassify -private, though; they'd have to come up with a method, bikeshed the method, and then propose a vote which still might not succeed. I know that the vote to disallow declassifying anything before 2008 stopped me from working on this when I was interested in understanding the early project history. Going forward, another alternative is to: 1) Keep the method for the archives; it sucks, but it doesn't really hurt anything. 2) All messages to -private will be declassified within 3 years with the exception of: a) [VAC] messages b) messages with [PRIVATE] in the subject; all such messages must be PGP signed with a key in the keyring or they will be rejected by the mailing list software. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic -- Terry Pratchett
