I'm happy with the changes in the -12 draft.

Thanks
   Brian Carpenter

On 21/03/2013 00:59, Paul E. Jones wrote:
> Brian,
> 
>> Major Issues:  
>> -------------
>>
>> There is no explicit discussion of privacy in the draft, which seems to
>> me to carry evident privacy risks. For example, imagine an ISP that
>> kindly decides to support webfinger for all customers by default,
>> and preloads personally identifiable information without consent.
> 
> Barry commented on this indicating it is there.  Per Dave's advice, I think 
> we should make it clearer with subsections in the security section.
>  
>> There is some relevant text in the Security Considerations:
>>
>>    Further, WebFinger MUST NOT be used to provide any personal
>>    information to any party unless explicitly or implicitly authorized
>>    by the person whose information is being shared.
>>
>> However, the weakness there is the words "or implicitly". IANAL, but it
>> seems highly likely that would be illegal in the European Union, at least.
> 
> I have no strong preference on this, but "implicit" was asked by some, since 
> (as an example), your information might be shared via WebFinger inside a 
> company for company use.
>  
>> Has the draft been validated against the guidelines in
>> draft-iab-privacy-considerations?
> 
> I have not, but Alissa was asked to weigh in (and she did).  I trust she 
> provided recommendations.  (I've not gotten that far down the stack, yet.)
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
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