It would be fine to post digital images with the signatures and address
information redacted - possibly by overlaying them with "Information on file
with OIDF" or something of that sort. (Sort of how elevators often contain
messages about the elevator license being on file at such-and-such place.)
-- Mike
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[mailto:openid-board-boun...@lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of David Recordon
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:40 AM
To: openid-board@lists.openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OIDF Privacy Policy
Hey John,
I'm happy to have us reconsider the policy.
The idea is to make it incredibly transparent around who has signed what (when
it comes to IP). So far you're the first person in three years to say anything
about it.
Considering that there can be different versions of documents and some
documents with options, scanning them as PDFs seemed like the easiest and most
accurate method. 99% of the time it's also companies signing the agreements
and using corporate addresses versus personal.
If Global Inventures is able to manage these agreements and keep up to date
online records, I'm less worried about each agreement being available online.
That said, they should be made available upon request.
--David
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:07 AM, John Bradley
<jbrad...@mac.com<mailto:jbrad...@mac.com>> wrote:
In the process of setting up the AX 1.1 WG a number of things have come to
light.
One is some confusion around who needs to submit what sort of agreement,
Personal or Company.
Perhaps our new Secretary can have a look at that.
The more important one is that the OIDF has a practice of positing scanned
documents publicly including peoples signature.
A number of us don't think publicly posting our address info with a scan of our
signature is such a good idea.
I think everyone agrees that who has signed contribution agreements and what WG
they apply to should be public.
However there are ways to do that are less subject to identity theft and other
issues.
I would like to recommend that one of our committees (perhaps the legal one) or
a sub committee.
Review and publish the OIDF privacy policy and specifically if practices like
posting members PII publicly are appropriate.
The board can then consider those recommendations.
In the interim I would like GlobalInventures to redact my signature from any
and all of the IPR agreements they publish.
I don't think we can be credible respecting peoples right to privacy on the
internet if we don't do a credible job with our own members.
There may be other privacy issues I am not currently aware of as well.
I think being proactive about privacy can only increase participation from the
community in general.
Regards
John B.
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